"Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again."

-- Madison Smartt Bell

#Ends Quotes #1960s Quotes #Begin Again Quotes

“If a pagan asks you to show him your faith, take him into church and place him before the icons.”
“Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.”
“Usually right when I'm feeling it, right when it's happening, I always find I need to be in some sort of survival mode or mature mom mode, so it always seems to come later that I have the breakdown.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I believe that those who die for Ireland have no need for prayer”
“I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that I mean everything we desire, is true (the myth of Icarus came before aviation, and if Ader or Bleriot started flying it is because all men have dreamed of flight). There is nothing truer than myth... Reality does not have to be: it is simply what is.”
“Youâ€™re not likely to err by practicing too much of the cross.”
“The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.”
“Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.”

Source : Self-interview, Dalkey Archive Press, 1994.

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