Charles W. Chesnutt Quotes
Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
Quotes to Explore
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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Most ballets are more interesting than most men.
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I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.
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In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.
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Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
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Mustard's no good without roast beef.
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I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
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“Fair is the stick by which parents of more than one child are driven.”
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Increasing knowledge lessens the sphere of the supernatural.
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Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
