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'm no Kenneth Branagh or Ben Stiller. I'm not that single-minded: 'I'm producing it, directing it, and starring in it' kind of person; that's not me.
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You write a screenplay and then everybody is going to want to get in on it and we have to figure that out. I've written three screenplays that are at studios and I still haven't been making them yet so there is always something that is either going to trip something up or maybe get another pass.
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"Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for." "Anything worth living for," said Nately, "is worth dying for." "And anything worth dying for," answered the sacrilegious old man, "is certainly worth living for."
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Everything comes with hard work. You never get to stop working. I don't see myself ever getting comfortable enough to not have to worry about working.
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Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.
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At every turn, Molly Antopol's gorgeous debut story collection, 'The UnAmericans,' is firing on multiple cylinders.
