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Marlon James Quotes

The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: jamaican
Birth: November 16, 1976

Topics

Me I Can Jump Try Fiction Something

At many points during our nation's history, there have been times - known in our history textbooks as 'panics' - when adverse conditions affecting the financial and economic sectors of the country have caused individuals to hoard more than they need.

History Financial Country More Need

The image of my face I hold in my mind is always about 10 years out of date.

Mind Face Always Years Image Out

After we have calmly stood by and allowed monopolies to grow fat, we should not be asked to make them bloated.

John Griffin Carlisle

Grow Fat Make Monopolies Should

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Andre Dubus III

People Look Important Strange Belief

Art is about forgetting all these feelings, good and bad, and trying to understand what acts will last longer, which symbols will remain in history. It's a question of perspective: The further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems.

Maurizio Cattelan

Good History Art Perspective Past

I'm a little hibernating animal. Anonymity is one of my favorite things. I mean, that's why I moved to New York when I was like 18, because there, there are just so many people that there's no one and you're just lost. You're completely invisible and I find that very liberating.

Animal New York People You Find New

'Canticum Sacrum' is wonderfully archaic. What Stravinsky does is extraordinary. It takes you on a journey from Gregorian chant right through to the modernism of Webern - and all in 17 minutes.

Journey You Right Extraordinary Does

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

War Think Will Diplomacy Sure Been

People in the media, it makes their day when someone they say is a five-star artist goes platinum.

Day People Someone Media Artist Say

We come across thirty or so hurried graves with makeshift wooden markers. 'Private Edwards, E.', a number, and that was all. Fourteen days ago he was alive, thinking feeling, hoping... If war was a game of cards, I'd say someone was cheating.

War Game Thinking Someone Cheating

It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.

Michael Richards

Life Strange Us Along Get Come

My grandfather, Jesse Bowman, was of Abenaki Indian descent. He could barely read and write, but I remember him as one of the kindest people I ever knew. I followed him everywhere. He showed me how to walk quietly in the woods and how to fish.

Walk People Me Woods Fish Remember

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