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Quotes by Jamaican Authors
"Bravery is the ability to endure, even unto death, all types of terrible, terrifying and painful situations and we live in a time when people do all that they can to avoid hardship and pain, never realizing that strength and courage is found in both."
"A gem, like you, is made beautiful by being polished. It's not an easy undertaking, but a stone that exists undisturbed among others just is...but the most beautiful stand out because they face being alone, endure hardships and learn from what challenges them. Suffering purifies and makes beautiful, but only if the gem can shine."
"Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death - and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death."
"I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any."
"He studied the woman before him, not as lovely as she once was, ordinary in appearance, scarred by living, abandoned by many, breathtakingly to be near and altogether unforgettable. "I have no friends," she spoke forth hauntingly. "I am alone." He couldn't believe it. But then he could for the rare creature near enough to touch was out of their league. She wasn't envied for the shallowness of appearance or the superficiality of status or possessions; she was envied for being uncommon and for possessing indomitable strength, something only a lifetime of suffering could shape."
"What have I to prove, and to whom, and why? I'm keen enough to want nothing more than to live a simple, humble, unfettered life."
"I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job."
"With confidence, you have won before you have started."
"Marriage is the connecting of the two: Without passion it's just friendship, without friendship it's just lust."
"Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot."
"Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed."
"She used to wander through the past as often as it beckoned her, bemoaning the loss of nostalgia. Then, for a while, she turned from it, blissfully free of its noxious clutch, and now it's back, taunting her with what she left behind, knowing she can never recapture what's gone."
"If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything."
"Some things you sentence yourself to life for."
"He wasn't yours to get hurt by. He was someone else's and you knew that, so why are you offended? What right do you have to be hurt when you were a part of the deception (lying by omission)?"
"My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die."
"While struggling with all the loss in her life, she mournfully thought, "If only I could forget..." But that would be too easy, wouldn't it? However, she did with most; she never got too close and she never stayed too long, but there she was...struggling with all the loss in her life."
"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"
"If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say."
"If I blink she'll disappear," he told her. She looked at him and said,"Maybe that is the best thing for you."
"Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines."
"I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?"
"Don't focus on her hiss. Remember her purr."
"There was once a spirited feral mustang broken in by her stern rider. It was a harmonious relationship for the most part but, like any relationship, she tested the boundaries he placed on her and threw him...Would the rider, having suffered his own wound, retaliate, discipline or forgive?"
"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
"Some people live their lives being perpetual victims and finger pointers. To anyone who points a finger at someone else and lays all the blame at their feet instead of taking responsibility for their own behavior, I would say, "I see that finger and you know where you can put it?"
"Never go to another woman about your woman. Not unless you want an insidious form of advice."
"She never wants to get to the point where she looks forward to hearing from someone. Once you look forward to something, you're inevitably let down and nothing can stay the same so she'd rather expect nothing at all and just be surprised that she was thought of at all."
"People care much more for how things look than how things are."
"I write for ghosts, the ghosts I can't see but I know stick around. Some I know are good. Others I know are bad. The first bring me nostalgic comfort while the latter instill unease."
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