"Sometimes you don't get but one mistake, if……" — Madison Smartt Bell
"Sometimes you don't get but one mistake, if the one you pick is bad enough."
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8 Quotes by Madison Smartt Bell
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Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was…
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In TheColorful Apocalypse, Greg Bottoms explores the frontier between inspiration and psychosis with the expressive power, the passionate fervor, and…
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Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain…
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Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state.…
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Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
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The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were…
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John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty…
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I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen…
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I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles -…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
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People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking…
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
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