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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I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man outside my window. It's not funny! It was real.
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Carlos, on paper, and Carlos, the guy who was in jail, is known to be a cultivated guy, the guy who handles big amounts of information, and for me, that was very important.
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I believe the gift of acting is a gift from God, my oath to God, and I want to make sure on a daily basis that it is honed and deeply spiritual... I want to believe that the audience believes that my acting comes from this special place.
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Islamism is a monstrous totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on reason, on civilization.
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I find it's better to focus on what's in front of you and to keep putting one foot in front of the other.
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At every turn, Molly Antopol's gorgeous debut story collection, 'The UnAmericans,' is firing on multiple cylinders.
