Jesmyn Ward Quotes
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
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I do get recognized, more and more every day.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
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I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before.
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The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.
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I come out before an audience and maybe my house burned down an hour ago, maybe my husband stayed out all night, but I stand there. ... I got them with me, right there in my hand and comfortable. That's my job, to make them comfortable, because if they wanted to be nervous they could have stayed home and added up their bills.
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I love my community. I love always being able to come back and have a home.
