John Edgar Wideman Quotes
Writing 'Hoop Roots' was a substitute or a surrogate activity. I can't play anymore - my body won't cooperate - so in the writing of the book, I was looking to tell a good story about my life and about basketball, but I was also looking to entertain myself the way that I entertain myself when I play.
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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I feel like I've got a pretty good presence online through Instagram and Facebook. I just keep it simple.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.
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Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
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My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'
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Life is one long jubilee.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.
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Fortunately, I have been very healthy all my life and very active all my life and have enjoyed an active lifestyle.
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Where there is love there is life.
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The Olympics are very important only if you gain a medal, and that's a very difficult achievement.
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The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.
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For me, my number one priority always has to be the music, and I'm going to work school around my music - not music around my school.
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We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
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Writing 'Hoop Roots' was a substitute or a surrogate activity. I can't play anymore - my body won't cooperate - so in the writing of the book, I was looking to tell a good story about my life and about basketball, but I was also looking to entertain myself the way that I entertain myself when I play.
