"Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my……" — Jesmyn Ward
"Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are never free from grief."
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16 Quotes by Jesmyn Ward
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Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to…
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By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic…
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There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in…
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I wanted to be my own heroine.
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She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered…
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I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled…
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I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the…
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That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.
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While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there…
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I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose…
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I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage…
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My mom worked as a housekeeper, and I saw her relationship with her employers - how on the one hand…
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More Configurations Quotes
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An amino acid residue (other than glycine) has no symmetry elements. The general operation of conversion of one residue of…
— Linus Pauling
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It has been recognized that hydrogen bonds restrain protein molecules to their native configurations, and I believe that as the…
— Linus Pauling
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This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of…
— Lyn Hejinian
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Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source…
— Unknown Author
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There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations…
— Ansel Adams
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The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment…
— Johannes Kepler
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The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the…
— Marshall McLuhan
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Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power,…
— Edward Said
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When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they…
— Yoshio Taniguchi
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Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings…
— Bill Dixon
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The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can…
— Lawrence Joseph Henderson
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In any finite region of space, matter can only arrange itself in a finite number of configurations, just as a…
— Brian Greene
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