Jesmyn Ward Quotes
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.
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If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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I talk about Beyonce too much. I am a diehard.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
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It's a violent world we live in. I don't agree with trying to hide that or cover it up.
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We're off the script We're off the lease We can't catch any decent sleep We don't live here anymore
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Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at the moment. The world we live in is made of an immensely complex and mysterious tissue about which we know very little and which we must treat with utmost humility
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I want people to get a better sense of who I am, whether they've seen every video or zero videos.
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I live in the South; there are Confederate flags everywhere.
