Edward P. Jones Quotes

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• Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.
• We are all worthy of one another.
• Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say…
• A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.
• The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a…
• At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised…
• Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no religious reason whatsoever,…
• In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.
• In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and her kids. They passed the…
• From my apartment in Arlington, I could see Washington. It was always nice to be near home.
• Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.
• I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence of one hundred…
• There are those who write because they believe they have something so marvelous that it will make them famous and wealthy, a lauded commodity who…
• Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part…

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