Top 7 Awl Quotes
#1. No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great man is only the poor necessary tool, only, so to speak, the paltry awl to bore with.
Knut Hamsun
#2. when people stopped having enough money to make long distance calls, or the energy and time to write, they disappeared ["The Basement," The Awl, Feb 5, 2015].
Ariana Kelly
#3. No man's plenum, Mr. Quistgaard, is impervious to the awl of God's will.
Donald Barthelme
#4. Disconnecting from one's community is a personal choice, of course, but it ends up having social implications ["The Basement," The Awl, Feb 5, 2015].
Ariana Kelly
#5. Running a liberal paper is like feeding melted butter on the end of an awl to a wild cat.
Oscar Ameringer
#6. His leg split like a piece of lumber being hit with an awl.
Andrew Cormier
#7. When it is time for me to visit Brigid, I find her awake in her little room. "That's awl righ', luv. I don' care to forget, if it's all the same," she says, and there are no rowan leaves at her window anymore.
Libba Bray
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