Ideas Quotes by Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid

But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or George Washington go? Did George Washington go to college? This idea which we now have that people ought to have these credentials is really ridiculous. Where did Homer go to college?

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Jamaica Kincaid

Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

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Jamaica Kincaid

I would pretend when I was a child that I was Charlotte Brontë, because I’d read Jane Eyre when I was ten and, although I didn’t understand it, I loved the idea that this woman had written a book. I wanted to be her.

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Jamaica Kincaid

I’ll read anything. In fact, I’ll read while I’m doing other things, which is not a good idea.

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Jamaica Kincaid

That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.

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Jamaica Kincaid

The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart—idea of thing, reality of thing—the wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness.

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Ideas Quotes by Jamaica Kincaid

Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

I would pretend when I was a child that I was Charlotte Brontë, because I’d read Jane Eyre when I was ten and, although I didn’t understand it, I loved the idea that this woman had written a book. I wanted to be her.

I’ll read anything. In fact, I’ll read while I’m doing other things, which is not a good idea.

That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.

The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart—idea of thing, reality of thing—the wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness.

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