"People don't make changes because things are wonderful." — Jamaica Kincaid
"People don't make changes because things are wonderful."
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Jamaica Kincaid
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68 Quotes by Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid has 68 quotes on this site.
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It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in…
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But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular,…
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The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they…
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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…
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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.…
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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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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe…
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you…
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London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's…
— David Bailey
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our…
— James A. Baldwin
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I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'
— Alan Ball
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Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.
— Antonio Banderas
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People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective…
— Albert Bandura
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I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life…
— Brigitte Bardot
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But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures,…
— Travis Barker
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