Edwidge Danticat Quotes

On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.

Edwidge Danticat

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: haitian
  • Birth: January 19, 1969

Topics

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It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it.

John Glover

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Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.

John Leonard

WithoutAppetiteHeMuchWhich

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

Sting

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Hillary Clinton is about 'we.' Donald Trump is about 'me.'

Tom Perez

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Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

Robert Evans

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Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy.

Robin Tunney

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Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.

Russell Smith

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If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.

Ruth Reichl

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Anyone with a show on T.V. will tell you it's backbreaking work. And if you have a big personality, which I have, and you're a perfectionist, there's going to be head-butting.

Roseanne Barr

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My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings. The final ending is usually arrived at simply by intuition.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Nobody who knows me and loves me dearly would ever call me adaptable or flexible. I'm not.

Judith Viorst

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Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London the other day and some people asked me to review the album.

Dennis Brown

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