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Darryl Pinckney Quotes

The draining away of James Baldwin's magic was a drama much discussed in the years leading up to his death in 1987 at the age of sixty-three.

Darryl Pinckney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1953

Topics

Age Death Magic Drama Years Up

When fake news is repeated, it becomes difficult for the public to discern what's real.

Fake News Difficult Real Public

What I'd love to do would be to bring a person from the past to me. In that case I'd pick Jane Austen, because I'd like to know what really made her tick. It's my opinion that she was inhibited by her family and a desire to do the right thing. Away from all that, I believe she'd show new facets and enjoy the adventure.

Family Love Past Adventure Me Enjoy

Peter Parker can't dance. He can flip and climb up walls and do backflips, but he definitely can't dance.

Dance Walls Climb Up Flip He

My heart has always been in more up-tempo music you can dance to.

Music Heart Dance You More Always

As I get older, I find myself way more into sports. I'm in a basketball league. You maybe know some of the people in it. They're real people, not fake ones like me.

Bryan Greenberg

Sports Myself People Me Basketball

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Knowledge Time Facts You Forget Out

Know yourself to improve yourself.

Yourself Know Yourself Know Improve

Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form.

William S. Burroughs

Universe You Copy Will Changes Same

We have a lot of guests who are trying to take over the house and the owner of the house doesn't like it.

Trying House Over Guests Take Like

Of course I'm proud of what I've done, but I'm interested in what's next. I want to be relevant now, in 2012. I've done my bit for the past. I've only ever been about what's next, really, and I'll be that way until I keel over.

Past Proud Done Now Want Way

If you look at history, and if you look at all these different things that have threatened the movie industry - from Betamax tape to DVDs to the Internet - in the end, it has always turned out right, because ultimately people want to see that stuff.

History People End Internet Look

I don't have a particular go-to political blog.

Political Blog Particular

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