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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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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

- Walt Disney

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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller

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The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

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I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.

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Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.

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