"That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal."

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Source : "In ‘Salvage the Bones,’ Jesmyn Ward Tells Personal Story of Hurricane Katrina". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. August 26, 2011.

Jesmyn Ward

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb”
“The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life.”

Source : "Milan Cardinal Scola quotes Kerouac to youthful flock as speculation on papal chances swirl", www.foxnews.com. March 6, 2013.
“Lukic saved with his foot, which is all part of the goalkeeper's arm.”
“Invented the #hashtag.”
“Power comes and goes. It can vanish in the twinkling of an eye, like smoke dissolving in the air.”
“I think fundamentally, the real power behind the anti-choice movement in regard to abortion and the opposition to the rights of LGBT Americans is fundamentally religious. I know that there are people who are secularists who have problems with the rights of gay people and problems with reproductive choice, but frankly those people are few in number.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“I would not go so far as to say that vaccination has never saved a person from smallpox. It is a matter of record that thousands of the victims of this superstitious rite have been saved from smallpox by the immunizing potency of death. But it is a fact that the official statistics of England and Wales show unmistakably that, while vaccination has killed ten times more people than smallpox, there has been a decrease in smallpox concomitant with the decrease in vaccination. . . It might be appropriately asked, in the words of the Vaccination Inquirer”
“So it's true, then, being in love is like hitting the sweepstakes. It doesn't happen to everyone, and there's no way of saying who's going to win, but it changes your life when it does.”

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