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Gloria Naylor: His entire life...

Gloria Naylor: His entire life...

His entire life was becoming a race against the natural -- and he was winning.

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Gloria Naylor: Sometimes being a...

Gloria Naylor: Sometimes being a...

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow...

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Alex Haley: My fondest hope...

Alex Haley: My fondest hope...

My fondest hope is that Roots may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. ...

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Alex Haley: In the bush,...

Alex Haley: In the bush,...

In the bush, trust no one you don't know.'

Source: Roots, 1977.
-- Alex Haley,...

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Alex Haley: Roots is not...

Alex Haley: Roots is not...

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Source:...

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Alan Brien: The majority of...

Alan Brien: The majority of...

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial...

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Tama Janowitz: As a writer,...

Tama Janowitz: As a writer,...

As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like...

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Anne Rice: . . ....

Anne Rice: . . ....

. . . as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny...

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Augusto Roa Bastos: The things that...

Augusto Roa Bastos: The things that...

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he...

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Emmuska Orczy: An apology?...

Emmuska Orczy: An apology?...

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might...

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Barbara Kingsolver: It's surprising how...

Barbara Kingsolver: It's surprising how...

It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

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Wilfrid Sheed: The American male...

Wilfrid Sheed: The American male...

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

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Lawrence Durrell: Like all young...

Lawrence Durrell: Like all young...

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

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Alan Paton: Life has not...

Alan Paton: Life has not...

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of...

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Alan Paton: To give up...

Alan Paton: To give up...

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

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Harry Crews: God love the...

Harry Crews: God love the...

God love the car. It has shown the naked heart that lives in all of us. Man invented the car but the car -- out of...

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William Gilmore Simms: The proverb answers...

William Gilmore Simms: The proverb answers...

The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of...

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William Gilmore Simms: The true law...

William Gilmore Simms: The true law...

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is...

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Ronald Firbank: The world is...

Ronald Firbank: The world is...

The world is disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

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Clive Barker: I've always thought...

Clive Barker: I've always thought...

I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its...

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