"This is what I have come to know:……" — Tayari Jones
"This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. But there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through."
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25 Quotes by Tayari Jones
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People say, That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you doesn't kill…
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And this is how it started. Just with coffee and the exchange of their long stories. Love can be incremental.…
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Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your…
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I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The…
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If there was ever a time to boil up some grits it is now.
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I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a…
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Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more…
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It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury.
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My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized…
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I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we…
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I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't…
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Remember that the writing itself is good for you. If your story is so close to home that you are…
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More Moving Quotes
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As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from…
— Aristotle
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You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
— Victoria Abril
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because…
— Robert Asprin
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In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep…
— Julian Assange
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I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first…
— David Attenborough
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I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
— David Attenborough
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We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also…
— David Attenborough
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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…
— Margaret Atwood
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Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.
— Diane Ackerman
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I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people…
— David Axelrod
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