Jesmyn Ward Quotes
At every turn, Molly Antopol's gorgeous debut story collection, 'The UnAmericans,' is firing on multiple cylinders.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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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The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.
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The most immediate influences upon AD&D were probably de Camp & Pratt, R. E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, H. P. Lovecraft, and A. Merritt.
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Scientifically speaking, an overweight person is more attractive than a skinny one. Newton's Law of Gravitation.
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The rejection I received when I was young for being a homosexual... that's nothing compared to the number you do on yourself when you've been taught that you are not a human like other people.
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This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.
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Let this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture itself is self-authenticated. . . . Therefore, illumined by his power, we believe neither by our own nor by any one else's judgment that Scripture is from God; but above human judgment we affirm with utter certainty (just as if we were gazing upon the majesty of God himself) that it has flowed to us from the very mouth of God by the ministry of men.
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At every turn, Molly Antopol's gorgeous debut story collection, 'The UnAmericans,' is firing on multiple cylinders.
