Edward P. Jones quotes
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“We are all worthy of one another.”
-- Edward P. JonesSource : Edward P. Jones (2009). “The Known World”, p.24, Harper Collins
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“Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say that it was a good and fine place but all the Americans were running it into the ground and that it would be a far better place if it had no Americans.”
-- Edward P. JonesSource : Edward P. Jones (2009). “The Known World”, p.41, Harper Collins
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“A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.”
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“The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.”
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“Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.”
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“At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.”
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“In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.”
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“When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you cant be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.”
-- Edward P. JonesSource : "The two dollars a day literary sensation" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2004.
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“I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.”
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“Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.”
-- Edward P. Jones
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