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That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.

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Jamaica Kincaid has 68 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small…
But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or…
I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always…
I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying…
The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.
When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot…
Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular, right at…
The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept…
There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.
One day I was living silently in a personal hell, without anyone to tell what I felt, without even knowing that the…
But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are…
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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I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on… — Brian Setzer
My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux,… — Margaret Drabble
What the devil possessed me to reply 1. ... e5?? I compltely forgot that Spassky, like Spielmann in the past, very much… — David Bronstein
The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of… — Henry David Thoreau
The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me. — Jean Giraud
I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape… — Mamie Gummer
I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher,… — Will Ferrell
if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so… — Henry David Thoreau
The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its… — Edgar Allan Poe
That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew… — Jamaica Kincaid
What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? — Henry David Thoreau

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