"I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book."

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Source : "Jamaica Kincaid on writing and 'outlaw American' culture". Interview with Nathan Rostron, www.usatoday.com. March 7, 2013.

Jamaica Kincaid

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“Gentle Jesus, meek and mild...”
“It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself.”
“But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.”

Source : Maurice Blanchot (1981). “Folie Du Jour”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press
“As a Christian, I think it's really important to find a man of God to trust and be supportive of me.”
“I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.”
“If we decide rightly what to do, or use a correct procedure for making such decisions, that has to be because the decisions or the procedure rest on good reasons, and these reasons consist in the apprehension of truths about what we ought to do. Because these truths must constitute reasons for our decisions, and because in the rational order, reasons must always precede the decisions based on them, the truth conditions of claims about what we ought to cannot be reduced to, or constructed out of, decisions about what to do, or procedures for making such decisions.”
“Drama is my sweet spot, but the thing about being an actor is that you want to do a variety of things. I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.”
“Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great”

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