Kemerton Hargrove Quotes

#1. There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily get, my books. That was a hard one to swallow, to not feel slighted by.

Lynn Coady

#2. All women are beautiful; it's society who's ugly.

Ben Mitchell

#3. The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.

Assata Shakur

#4. I wish I was one of those people who could write script after script and pages and pages. I can only aspire to do that.

Fred Armisen

#5. Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

Helen Rowland

#6. He sat in his dwelling alone, watching through the window, seeing children at play, citizens bicycling home from uneventful days at work, ordinary lives free of anguish because he had been selected, as others before him had, to bear their burden.

Lois Lowry

#7. Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.

Pankaj Mishra

#8. I want to tell this right. I was thirty-eight years old. I had spent my entire adult life reading meanings into other people's stories, finding the figure in the carpet, the order in things. God in the details and no place else.

John Burnham Schwartz

#9. Despite many reports to the contrary, kindness, concern, and a desire to do good and make a positive difference in this life are alive and well in America. For that, I am extremely grateful.

Ken Wahl