Quote by Esi Edugyan Download Open image ““An ancient old raisin of a man. I”” — Esi Edugyan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Every box of raisins is a tragic tale of grapes that could have been wine.” — Lane Hayes Copy Share Image
“You will find that sometimes people suck your light out of you, turning you from a plump grape into a shriveled up raisin.” — Lee Vickers Copy Share Image
“A grape may become a raisin, and taste the sweeter for it, but even a raisin rot on the vine, if you do nothing… — E.J. Patten Copy Share Image
“The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A grape may be a raisin, and taste the sweeter for it, but even a raisin will rot on the vine, if you do… — E.J. Patten Copy Share Image
“I myself, however, could never resist the temptation to read raisin paste for wine in the story of the Miracle of Cana. "When the… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“I am a man of the old world, a seed that was transplanted by the wind, a seed which failed to blossom in the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“He had been a mere man railing at a condition, but now he was out of it and could see that it had been… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
“Hell," he said with a grin. "It's early yet. It's always early, while you still alive.” — Esi Edugyan Copy Share Image
“Do you still call it talent, if it blooms without any kind of nurturing? That's got to be something else. She made talent sound… — Esi Edugyan Copy Share Image
“She laughed. I closed my eyes. It sounded damn mournful, that laugh of hers echoing off the square.” — Esi Edugyan Copy Share Image
Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood Blues was… — Esi Edugyan Copy Share Image
“Jazz. Here in Germany it become something worse than a virus. We was all of us damn fleas, us Negroes and Jews and low-life… — Esi Edugyan Copy Share Image
“Chip recons that he is charming as hell, and who am I to poke holes in his theory. That means that sometimes lies leave… — Esi Edugyan Copy Share Image
“There's all sorts of ways to live, Chip. Some of them you give a lot. Some of them you take a lot. Art, jazz,… — Esi Edugyan Copy Share Image
