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Jamaica Kincaid has 68 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small…
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But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or…
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I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always…
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I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying…
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The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.
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When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot…
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Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular, right at…
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The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept…
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There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.
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One day I was living silently in a personal hell, without anyone to tell what I felt, without even knowing that the…
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But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are…
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It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.
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