James Hamilton-Paterson Quotes

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To name something is to take control of it. It could be argued that the Old Testament story of Genesis was less a matter of creation than of naming, of God taking control of chaos.

James Hamilton-Paterson

There is a psychological accuracy in this insistence that a proper life cannot be lived without pilgrimage, a journey, a great excursion and abandoning of towns, village, hearth. Only in this way is the unsuspected majesty of the world revealed.

James Hamilton-Paterson

American diplomacy. It's like watching somebody trying to do joinery with a chainsaw.

James Hamilton-Paterson

James Hamilton-Paterson

James Hamilton-Paterson

Born: November 6, 1941 (age 83)

Bio: James Hamilton-Paterson is a poet and novelist.

Known for:

Cooking with Fernet Branca (2004)
America's Boy (1998)
Amazing Disgrace (2006)
Playing with Water (1987)
Seven-tenths (1992)

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