Colson Whitehead Quotes
It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to appreciate them.Colson Whitehead
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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When Nelson Mandela walked free, the world sang with joy. Ever since, South Africa has stood as a beacon of hope for Africa.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
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The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.
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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
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The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one’s thoughts to cease to be aware of life.
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But simultaneously with the development of capitalist production the credit system also develops. The money-capital which the capitalist cannot as yet employ in his own business is employed by others, who pay him interest for its use.
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I'm not going to rip all that up. It's water over the dam. The people have gotten used to it. You know, that's what Stare Decisis is all about. In other words, I am an originalist. I am a textualist. I am not a nut.
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The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.
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It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to appreciate them.
Colson Whitehead
