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Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

Brief author info: Jamaica Kincaid (1949- ) West Indian author.

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Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this.

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A tourist is an ugly human being.

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Wise Quote

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

- Marilyn Monroe

Happiness Quote

There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so.

- Anonymous

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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

- Phyllis Diller

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A woman we love rarely satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman whom we do not love.

- Marcel Proust

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The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

- Maya Angelou

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