Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

One doesn't have to pursue unhappiness. It comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.

Jamaica Kincaid

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
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  • Birth: May 25, 1949

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Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.

Sid Vicious

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Concerned consumers are realizing that they can use social media to organize themselves around shared values to start effective movements. Social media gives them a sounding board to share ideas, as well as a means to punish irresponsible corporate behaviors.

Simon Mainwaring

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In the end, one has to feel lucky that things fell out O.K. I've felt that all the years I've been writing plays.

Tom Stoppard

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The dirty little secret on Wall Street: Eighty percent of the Wall Street executives' and their spouses' donations go to Democrats. It's like they've got some kind of little sweet deal, where we'll call you fat cats and demean you and stuff, but you will get richer than your wildest dreams.

Louie Gohmert

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Music is primal: when it's done without pretension, you can really feel the shape of someone's soul.

Lizz Wright

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Being a heart throb would be crazy.

Josh Hutcherson

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You never say never to nothing.

Jon Gruden

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Respect your partner. Be happy in your partner's happiness.

Divyanka Tripathi

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Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things.

Christopher Paolini

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British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse.

Craig Charles

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A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

William Gibson

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