Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don't recognize the person in the photograph. She doesn't look anything like me, and I can't find any trace of her in me physically. And yet I remember her very, very well - even her anxiety.

Jamaica Kincaid

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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AgeMyselfMeAnxietyRememberLook

For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.

Andrei Sakharov

FamilyTimeLieMePressureFriends

I suppose I try to look for those things where the world turns on you. It's every automobile accident, every accident at a party, you're having a good time until suddenly you're not.

John Irving

GoodTimeHaving A Good TimeWorld

Kids lead a very private life.

Maurice Sendak

LifePrivate LifeLeadKidsVery

I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.

Sue Townsend

BirthdayMotherChildrenTimeSmall

The doctor didn't want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is something I enjoy, but fly-fishing is a different thing: That's religion. Hunting is religion for me. I didn't want to give those up.

Tom Brokaw

ReligionMeDoctorGolfEnjoyPlay

I got a third-degree ankle sprain practicing long jump. I never fully recovered. That was my first heartbreak. I thought track was going to be something that was going to happen in my life. It never went in the direction I wanted it to, no matter how hard I tried.

Michelle Wolf

LifeDirectionThoughtMy LifeLong

We're giants, and we're unaware of things that are too small for us to see.

Louie Schwartzberg

SmallSeeGiantsThingsUsUnaware

It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the insecurity and ruin which these fluctuations produce; and to build up those who are already ruined.

Josiah Warren

InsecurityEndSeriousBuildUp

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

GoodFaithCourageMountainsMeTop

Successful collaboration, in your mind, could be that your opinion is the most valuable and becomes the prevailing sort of direction. That's not collaborating.

Jonathan Ive

MindCollaborationOpinionDirection

Because I've always been a fairly nervous person.

David Sedaris

PersonNervousAlwaysBecauseBeen

Being British, we tend to think of ourselves as America's best friend. And as your best friend, that gives us a little bit of license to point out things that could have been handled better.

Philip Kerr

FriendBestBest FriendThinkBetter

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