Jesmyn Ward Quotes
At every turn, Molly Antopol's gorgeous debut story collection, 'The UnAmericans,' is firing on multiple cylinders.
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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
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Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.
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Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
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Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.'
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
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I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.
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There are so many immigrant-led success stories in the United States, and the fact that it's gotten so much harder for educated folks to stay here is really unfortunate.
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I've got a clear line between work and real life.
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My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.
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Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.
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My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.
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There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.
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I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
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Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
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If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.
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You were a terrible baby, do you know that? Bawling all the time, never sleeping. And one night you just wouldn't shut up, screaming like a dying pig. I walked over to your crib, I looked down at you. I wanted to strangle you. And you looked up at me and you stopped screaming. You smiled at me. Don't die so far from the sea.
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All metaphysical theories are inconclusively vulnerable to positivist attack.
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The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is 'Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War One is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand'. -Lemony Snicket
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At every turn, Molly Antopol's gorgeous debut story collection, 'The UnAmericans,' is firing on multiple cylinders.
