Edward P. Jones Quotes

• We are all worthy of one another.

  Edward P. Jones

  Love, Worthy, Worthiness

  Edward P. Jones (2009). “The Known World”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.

  Edward P. Jones

  Awful, Humans, Fascinated

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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.

  Edward P. Jones

  Fiction, Facts, Steps

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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.

  Edward P. Jones

  Baby, Blow, Men

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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. Jones

  Mother, Jobs, Growing Up

  "The two dollars a day literary sensation" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2004.

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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

  Eye, Stories, I Can Read

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• Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.

  Edward P. Jones

  Long, Ease, Uneasy

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• A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.

  Edward P. Jones

  Men, Age, Matter

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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.

  Edward P. Jones

  Mother, Book, Black And White

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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. Jones

  Running, America, People

  Edward P. Jones (2009). “The Known World”, p.41, Harper Collins

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