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No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

— Jamaica Kincaid The Autobiography of My Mother (1996)

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I've come to think that the traditional way of writing is the artificial way that that's not the way things work at all. It's not the way thinking works.

Interview with NPR (2013)

I now see that good behaviour is the proper posture of the weak, of children.

A Small Place (1988)

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.

The Autobiography of My Mother (1996)

It's always amazing to me the people who talk about the superiority of Western civilization—nothing else has done more to destroy the earth!

Interview with Goodreads (2013)

The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them.

The Autobiography of My Mother (1996)

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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