"I'm still divided in my principles and what I think is right and what I'm actually able to do, whether talking about writing or being a citizen or being a husband or being a father. And I'm trying to get better."

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John Edgar Wideman

#Husband Quotes #Father Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I read books all the time, I'm always reading. I'm not like somebody that reads really fast or a lot or anything, but I always have a book that I'm reading.”

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“[On leaving the U.S. for Italy:] I ought to be accomplishing thrice as much as now, and feel that I am soul-bound and thought-bound in this land of dollars and cents.”
“About three years ago, I started an exercise in openness and inclusiveness to create new digital tools for magic - tools that could eventually be shared with other artists to start them off further on in the process and to get them into the poetry faster.”
“Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Whenever Iâ€™m suffering from insomnia, I just look at a picture of a Toyota Camry and Iâ€™m straight off.”
“If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to work at the center of these peculiar people. Then we can look into the eyes of a centurion and see not a beast but a child of God, and then walk with that child a couple of miles. Look into the eys of tax collectors as they sue you in court; see their poverty and give them your coat. Look in to the eys of the ones who are hardest for you to like, and see the One you love. For God loves good and bad people.”
“Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?”
“It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.”

Source : "The World & I", Volume 3, Issues 5-6, May 1988.

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