John Edgar Wideman Quotes

My mother was a reader; my father was a reader. Not anything particularly sophisticated. My mother read fat historical or romantic novels; my father liked to read Westerns, Zane Grey, that kind of stuff. Whatever they brought in, I read.

John Edgar Wideman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 14, 1941

Topics

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If you want to do what you want to do, you have to look a certain way.

Jessica Cutler

YouLookWantWayCertain

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you'll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

John C. Maxwell

NegativeEnergyThinkingProblemYou

I'd like to direct something at the Public.

Joel Grey

SomethingLikeDirectPublic

If the leadership can't win a debate, then we should show true leadership and implement the democratic will of our party.

Jeremy Corbyn

LeadershipWinDebatePartyTrue

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

John Cusack

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One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it as if it were literal.

Robert J. Sawyer

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Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, 'Those who can, do, those who can't, teach,' forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.

Michael Ignatieff

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I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.

John Perry Barlow

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I built a huge profitable business with no debt.

Sophia Amoruso

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If it happens, I'll be proud, and it would be a dream come true, though I doubt I ever thought I'd be a Hall of Famer when I started. It wasn't until late in my career that people started to mention it, and you start thinking about it a little bit.

Tom Glavine

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It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a Zombie film, as, one by one, old friends reveal themselves, with their glassy stares and outstretched arms, to have succumbed to the lure.

Craig Brown

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I will share a personal experience: my father was posted in Jammu & Kashmir during the Kargil war. I remember my mom sitting in front of television throughout the day reading tickers which had name of the martyrs.

Anushka Sharma

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