"I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending."

-- Jamaica Kincaid

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Way Quotes

“Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.”
“I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things”
“We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?”
“Whatever policy we adopt, there must be an energetic prosecution of it. For this purpose it must be somebody's business to pursue and direct it incessantly.”

Source : William H. Seward's memorandum to President Abraham Lincoln, April 1, 1861.
“Most aspiring child actors or child stars have a passion for it. But as easy as it is for me to say that I wouldn't put my kids in it, if I saw that they really, really wanted to do and they had the drive, then I would fully support it. As long as there's balance at home, then they could do whatever they wanted to do.”
“If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston, or Richard Wright, they all deal with elements of identity and trying to humanize our experience and our struggle in the world where people have been indifferent to who we are and what we are. It's basically just saying that our lives have meaning.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn and each stationary.”
“Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as opportunity.”

Source : Adeline Yen Mah (2009). “Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter”, p.154, Laurel Leaf

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