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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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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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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My favorite outfit is baggy black corduroy pants and a baggy T-shirt.
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Unfortunately, I ended up kind of getting sadly duped, in a way. I haven't had an agent in 10 years, and now I'm doing some of the most interesting films I've ever had an opportunity to play in.
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The spell was simple and I'd said half of it before she even figured out that it was a spell. Since you like bubbles so, In a bubble you must go. In that bubble you will stay Till your bubbles go away. Sound can't pass from inside out Even if you scream or shout. If you want to be set free, End your spell, that's the key
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My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this masculine name for their only girl.
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At every turn, Molly Antopol's gorgeous debut story collection, 'The UnAmericans,' is firing on multiple cylinders.
