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Chris Crutcher Biography

Chris Crutcher (born July 17, 1946) is an American novelist and a family therapist. He received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2000 for his lifetime contribution in writing for teens.

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Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.

Pain, Joy, Matter, Excruciating, Contrast

You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system.

Christian, Hate, White, Bombers, Belief

Beware the short terminal guy with nothing to lose.

Beware, Guy, Lose, Nothing, Nothing To Lose, Terminal

It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your 'reporting' that you do.

Child, Children, Development, Intimate, Reporting

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Opposites, Nothing, Opposite, Exists

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.

Connect, Hope, Putting Yourself Out There, Truest, Way

I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way. . . in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.

Honest, Positively, Teens, Visible, Way

Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.

Book, Reading, Stories, Particular, Story

. . . the Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath. When I envision us walking seven abreast through the halls of Cutter High, decked out in the sacred blue and gold, my heart swells.

Educational, Heart, Men, Cutter, Gold

I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.

Easter, King, Kings, Memorial, Memorial Day, Right

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could. It's like playing ball in some way. There are guys on the team, like Cody, I'd give my life for. But you have to be willing to lay down your life for all of them if you want to put the best you on the field. Every guy on that field has to believe you'll bring nothing back off the field with you.

Believe, Down, Field, Giving, Team, Willing

I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that.

Knowing, Lee, Real, Thinking, Told

I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.

Know, Subject, Subjects, Taboo, Think, Thinking

Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one sense, try this: we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it. The intensity of the love is weighted by how much better.

Acceptance, Love, Say, Sense, Trying

And I think if you're going to be with somebody, you owe it to them to show yourself.

Ifs, Owe, Shows, Somebody, Think, Thinking

I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels hundreds or even thousands of miles. Every whale in the ocean will at one time or another run into that song. And I figure whales probably don't edit. If they think it, they say it. . . Whale talk is the truth, and in a very short period of time, if you're a whale, you know exactly what it is to be you.

Running, Song, Block, Say, Ocean, Whales

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

Back, Book, Firsts, Loose, Running, Written

There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.

Censors, One Thing, Say, Shut, Shut Up, Thing

If you were to look at each atom as a universe unto itself, think of the number of universes within each of us.

Atom, Atoms, Numbers, Think, Thinking, Unto

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.

Mad, Language

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