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John Edgar Wideman Quotes

How do you talk about the Holocaust? How do you talk about slavery? Probably the best thing to do is just be quiet and hide from it, forget about it. Except, then it jumps up and bites you. Because it's there.

John Edgar Wideman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Best Slavery You Hide Holocaust Up

I operated a business where I let someone steal three-quarters of a million dollars.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Business Someone Where Steal Million

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Perseverance Ideas World Enthusiasm

I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something.

Matt Groening

People Me Sorry Feeling Ask Through

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

Jean Giraudoux

War Impossible Back Will Drum Hold

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

Stephen Jay Gould

Evolution Three Two Most Fascinating

When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Wife Plants Trouble Know My Own Own

The White House is a huge organization, first and foremost.

Mike McCurry

Organization House White First Huge

Movies are just ridiculously expensive.

Anthony Michael Hall

Movies Expensive Just Ridiculously

I read God's word when I am not suffering. And then I don't have to all of a sudden establish this habit when I am hurting.

Anne Graham Lotz

God Habit I Am Suffering Read Word

We have equality of men and women in western society, whereas in Islamic culture, women are inferior to men.

Pim Fortuyn

Women Culture Men Equality Society

Data from orbiting telescopes like NASA's Kepler Mission hint that the tally of habitable planets in our galaxy is many billion. If E.T.'s not out there, then Earth is more than merely special - it's some sort of miracle.

Seth Shostak

Data Mission Earth NASA More Galaxy

I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.

Thomas Keneally

Memories Children Dangerous Know