Diversion Quote by Jamaica Kincaid Download Open image “The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.” — Jamaica Kincaid ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diversion Life Love Romance
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is no romance without some lying. That's what romance is - a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life. — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
Romance is very particular to each individual and a very personalised thing. — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you should have… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college.… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other. And the important thing isn't whether I'm angry. The more… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
"Race." I really can't understand it as anything other than something people say. The people who have said that you and I are both… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry."… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound,… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Have you ever wondered to yourself why it is that all people like me seem to have learned from you is how to imprison and murder each other, how to govern badly, and how to take the wealth of our country and place it in Swiss bank accounts? Have you ever wondered why it is that all we seem to… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share
Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Do you see the queer thing about people like me? Sometimes we hold your retribution.” — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness… — Bo Gritz Copy Share Image
And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which I know how to work - information becomes a distraction, a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A really hard laugh is like sex-one of the ultimate diversions of existence. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
There's a diversion between economic reality - integration, global village, everybody depending on everybody else - and cultural reality, which is people feeling invaded, undermined, threatened, wanting to have "stand-your-ground" legislation all over the place. It's alarming because at the moment, the fear is outweighing the benefits, and that's partially because the benefits have been so unequally distributed that lots… — Duncan Green Copy Share
“Soon enough, we are all going to leave this earth for good. The thought of this alone should make us love deeply, and live… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an enemy to provoke, a diversion. This is the mentality of tenth-rate people who are in politics because corporate America likes them. They are malleable. They give them contracts to build missile shields that will never work.… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
Now, how do you explain Obama's claim, that he can kill American citizens without due process? Well, he has his attorney general get up… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the… — Robert Shea Copy Share Image
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
