John Edgar Wideman Quotes

The title of my book is 'American Histories,' plural. And as far as I'm concerned, my reading of history is it is a sort of nightmare. It is a sort of nightmare, and I'm trying to wake up from it. And as any nightmare, it's full of much that is unspeakable.

John Edgar Wideman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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If 'The Blacklist' taught me anything, it was kind of open-ended intrigue and leaving questions unanswered. Creating this kind of mystery by virtue of depriving the audience of these easy answers was what I was kind of into.

Joe Carnahan

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You realize as you get older that tomorrow is not guaranteed for anybody.

John McLaughlin

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I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that I was really interested in was there, but I knew nothing, no education, no art education, no education beyond high school. It was extremely overwhelming and it still is.

John Howe

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Wall Street has become a veritable casino.

Maurice Allais

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A lot of people don't know this, but Toronto is probably the most multicultural city in North America.

Stephen Amell

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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

Sophocles

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All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.

Robert Collier

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I started thinking, 'What if Superman or Batman really existed?' Superman would be doing Nike commercials. The members of Youngblood take the genre of super-heroes and turn it into a business.

Rob Liefeld

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It's no surprise that optimistic athletes, managers and teams do better. What's interesting is where they do better. It's in coming back from defeat and acting in the clutch.

Martin Seligman

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What the guys have learned is that whether you're preaching to one or 10,000, it really doesn't matter. That one person you touch may change the nation - could be the Billy Graham of Ethiopia.

Michael Scott

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To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.

Lukas Foss

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People can easily make millions of dollars without much work in America.

Jason Calacanis

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