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Marlon James quotes: Can't play it safe when nowhere safe anymore Can't play it safe when nowhere safe anymore
Marlon James quotes: Me love that man to the max. Me would take a bullet for the Singer. But gentlemens, me can only take one. Me love that man to the max. Me would take a bullet for the Singer. But gentlemens, me can only take one.
Marlon James quotes: Only a matter of time before you make enemies as ruthless as you, after all you're the one raising the bar Only a matter of time before you make enemies as ruthless as you, after all you're the one raising the bar
Marlon James quotes: Jamaicans are so unflappable, they might as well be Minnesotans. Jamaicans are so unflappable, they might as well be Minnesotans.
Marlon James quotes: I just need to fucking breathe I just need to fucking breathe
Marlon James quotes: Me have a rule with woman. If your titty prettier and your body hotter than my woman I'll deal with you. Otherwise, fuck off. Me have a rule with woman. If your titty prettier and your body hotter than my woman I'll deal with you. Otherwise, fuck off.
Marlon James quotes: I see the calm and hear the calm and know the calm can't last. Not for me, not for him, not for Kingston, not for Jamaica. For I see the calm and hear the calm and know the calm can't last. Not for me, not for him, not for Kingston, not for Jamaica. For
Marlon James quotes: You see and wait, You see and wait,
Marlon James quotes: - What? - How the girl getting - What? - How the girl getting
Marlon James quotes: This is a story of several killings, of boys who meant nothing to a world still spinning, This is a story of several killings, of boys who meant nothing to a world still spinning,
Marlon James quotes: - You different, Lilith. You have more darkness 'bout you now. You turning into woman, Homer say to her. - Me turning into something, Lilith say. - You different, Lilith. You have more darkness 'bout you now. You turning into woman, Homer say to her. - Me turning into something, Lilith say.
Marlon James quotes: Worse, you all present tense and have to deal with sudden past tense all around you. It's like realizing somebody rob you a year late. Worse, you all present tense and have to deal with sudden past tense all around you. It's like realizing somebody rob you a year late.
Marlon James quotes: If you can break a day down into quarters, then hours then half hours then minutes, you can chew down any stretch of time into bite sized. If you can break a day down into quarters, then hours then half hours then minutes, you can chew down any stretch of time into bite sized.
Marlon James quotes: Some man never get the woman who cure them from looking for another woman. Some man never get the woman who cure them from looking for another woman.
Marlon James quotes: Homer say, Pretty gal go a river and see herself in water. Pretty gal drown when she go down to kiss herself. Homer say, Pretty gal go a river and see herself in water. Pretty gal drown when she go down to kiss herself.
Marlon James quotes: I was the nerd. Because I was reading. I wasn't into sports. I was really into art. Very geekish about comics. Assumed gay. I was the nerd. Because I was reading. I wasn't into sports. I was really into art. Very geekish about comics. Assumed gay.
Marlon James quotes: I wanted a picture of Jamaica that isn't in books, and certainly not in novels. I wanted a picture of Jamaica that isn't in books, and certainly not in novels.
Marlon James quotes: The white man say we're fighting for freedom from totalitarianism, terrorism and tyranny, but nobody know what he mean. I The white man say we're fighting for freedom from totalitarianism, terrorism and tyranny, but nobody know what he mean. I
Marlon James quotes: Gorgon say that Callisto was a woman who laugh all her life but never smile once. Gorgon say that Callisto was a woman who laugh all her life but never smile once.
Marlon James quotes: Dead people never stop talking. Dead people never stop talking.
Marlon James quotes: There was never a single murder in my neighbourhood; there was barely a robbery. It was so suburban, it was almost disappointing. There was never a single murder in my neighbourhood; there was barely a robbery. It was so suburban, it was almost disappointing.
Marlon James quotes: If it no go so, it go near so. - Jamaican proverb If it no go so, it go near so. - Jamaican proverb
Marlon James quotes: - The problem with a book is that you never know what it's planning to do to you until you're too far into it. - The problem with a book is that you never know what it's planning to do to you until you're too far into it.
Marlon James quotes: Living people wait and see because they fool themselves that they have time. Dead people see and wait. Living people wait and see because they fool themselves that they have time. Dead people see and wait.
Marlon James quotes: The two men who bring guns to the ghetto don't know what to do since when music hit you can't hit it back. The two men who bring guns to the ghetto don't know what to do since when music hit you can't hit it back.
Marlon James quotes: Then I wondered if everybody has that person that haunts them, the one that got away. Then I wondered if everybody has that person that haunts them, the one that got away.
Marlon James quotes: I have a theory that while a man might not always get the wife he wants or needs, he always gets the wife he deserves. I have a theory that while a man might not always get the wife he wants or needs, he always gets the wife he deserves.
Marlon James quotes: I'm really interested in how non-American countries process race. I'm really interested in how non-American countries process race.
Marlon James quotes: When building monsters don't be surprised when they become monstrous. When building monsters don't be surprised when they become monstrous.
Marlon James quotes: Write about only three things: what you love, what you hate, and what you're deeply conflicted about. Write about only three things: what you love, what you hate, and what you're deeply conflicted about.
Marlon James quotes: What really boils me blood is that it's not that Daddy didn't have money, but he never could think of a single good reason to spend it. What really boils me blood is that it's not that Daddy didn't have money, but he never could think of a single good reason to spend it.
Marlon James quotes: Miss Betsy is looking at me. Some jealousy sure, but every woman have that in them Miss Betsy is looking at me. Some jealousy sure, but every woman have that in them
Marlon James quotes: - Do you know what we mean by Cold War? - War don't have no temperature. - Do you know what we mean by Cold War?
- War don't have no temperature.
Marlon James quotes: We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible. We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible.
Marlon James quotes: In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them. In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them.
Marlon James quotes: If you going rape me, rape me already and leave me in whichever ditch you leave woman. Just stop bore me with your r'asscloth mouth If you going rape me, rape me already and leave me in whichever ditch you leave woman. Just stop bore me with your r'asscloth mouth
Marlon James quotes: I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed. I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed.
Marlon James quotes: But sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness. But sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness.
Marlon James quotes: Devil has his part to play. Devil has his part to play.
Marlon James quotes: Hate and love be closer cousin than like and dislike. Hate and love be closer cousin than like and dislike.
Marlon James quotes: That's the problem with peace. Peace make you careless. That's the problem with peace. Peace make you careless.
Marlon James quotes: Woman breed baby, but man can only make Frankenstein. Woman breed baby, but man can only make Frankenstein.
Marlon James quotes: Everybody know that condom and birth control was white man scheme to kill off black people, but he don't care. Everybody know that condom and birth control was white man scheme to kill off black people, but he don't care.
Marlon James quotes: Something happen when somebody tell you something about yourself even if you already know. Something happen when somebody tell you something about yourself even if you already know.
Marlon James quotes: Love isn't saying, I love you but calling to say, did you eat Love isn't saying, I love you but calling to say, did you eat
Marlon James quotes: Dead. It sounds final but it's a word missing an ing. Dead. It sounds final but it's a word missing an ing.
Marlon James quotes: Killing don't need no reason. This is ghetto. Reason is for rich people. We have madness. Madness Killing don't need no reason. This is ghetto. Reason is for rich people. We have madness. Madness
Marlon James quotes: They turned over the reception desk and the poor security guards did the only thing they could do. They ran. They turned over the reception desk and the poor security guards did the only thing they could do. They ran.
Marlon James quotes: I want her to look at me and smile just to show that she knows that I know that she knows I want her to look at me and smile just to show that she knows that I know that she knows
Marlon James quotes: Politicians rise in the east and set in the west and nothing you can change about them. Politicians rise in the east and set in the west and nothing you can change about them.
Marlon James quotes: I hate people like that, people you have to protect while they keep hurting you. I hate people like that, people you have to protect while they keep hurting you.
Marlon James quotes: People who say they don't have a choice just too coward to choose. People who say they don't have a choice just too coward to choose.
Marlon James quotes: Is not gone, you're in the flatness of the deadlands. Time doesn't stop. You watch it move but you are still, like a painting with a Mona Lisa smile. Is not gone, you're in the flatness of the deadlands. Time doesn't stop. You watch it move but you are still, like a painting with a Mona Lisa smile.
Marlon James quotes: Because people so poor that they can't even afford shame and I wait. Because people so poor that they can't even afford shame and I wait.
Marlon James quotes: I'm not a writer on a mission, and I'm very suspicious of writers on missions, but I'm also not living a false life. I'm not a writer on a mission, and I'm very suspicious of writers on missions, but I'm also not living a false life.
Marlon James quotes: Three year in prison and a dick is just another thing to put up your ass. Three year in prison and a dick is just another thing to put up your ass.
Marlon James quotes: That's what happens when you personify hopes and dreams in one person. He becomes nothing more than a literary device. That's what happens when you personify hopes and dreams in one person. He becomes nothing more than a literary device.
Marlon James quotes: As a writer of colour, you have to be victim or perpetrator. As a writer of colour, you have to be victim or perpetrator.
Marlon James quotes: Whenever you hold a gun, it's really the gun that's holding you. Whenever you hold a gun, it's really the gun that's holding you.
Marlon James quotes: Some people just fated to fuck up even when them smart enough to know better. Some people just fated to fuck up even when them smart enough to know better.
Marlon James quotes: -Come on, Bill. As small as America's dick is, those limeys will stretch across the Atlantic to suck it. -Come on, Bill. As small as America's dick is, those limeys will stretch across the Atlantic to suck it.
Marlon James quotes: the dead never stop talking and sometimes the living hear. the dead never stop talking and sometimes the living hear.
Marlon James quotes: Then coffin, black with silver handles with the dead boy in a black velvet suit. If you're never gonna sweat why not go out in winter style? Then coffin, black with silver handles with the dead boy in a black velvet suit. If you're never gonna sweat why not go out in winter style?
Marlon James quotes: Never think about the past, that shit will fuck you up and you cant fuck it back Never think about the past, that shit will fuck you up and you cant fuck it back
Marlon James quotes: Pretty much everything I've written is a mix of excitement and fear. Pretty much everything I've written is a mix of excitement and fear.
Marlon James quotes: After Tuesday come Wednesday. And what you do on Tuesday change the type of Wednesday that going come to you. After Tuesday come Wednesday. And what you do on Tuesday change the type of Wednesday that going come to you.
Marlon James quotes: When dog kill puss, and puss kill dog, the only one happy is the john-crow. When dog kill puss, and puss kill dog, the only one happy is the john-crow.
Marlon James quotes: Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant. Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant.
Marlon James quotes: Learn this, all nice and decent people. An election year commence as soon as the first gunshot buss. Learn this, all nice and decent people. An election year commence as soon as the first gunshot buss.
Marlon James quotes: I laugh because me been dancing with shadow in the dawn and in the night. Even in broad, bright daylight we searching for the dark. I laugh because me been dancing with shadow in the dawn and in the night. Even in broad, bright daylight we searching for the dark.
Marlon James quotes: Now he is a man who could talk to God and the devil and make them work they differenceas long as neither of them have a woman. Now he is a man who could talk to God and the devil and make them work they difference
as long as neither of them have a woman.
Marlon James quotes: The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something. The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.
Marlon James quotes: At 28 years old, seven years out of college, I was so convinced that my voice outed me as a fag that I had stopped speaking to people I didn't At 28 years old, seven years out of college, I was so convinced that my voice outed me as a fag that I had stopped speaking to people I didn't know.
Marlon James quotes: Is true, you do feel better about things the further you run from it Is true, you do feel better about things the further you run from it
Marlon James quotes: Every time you reach the edge, the edge move ahead of you like a shadow until the whole world is a ghetto, and you wait. Every time you reach the edge, the edge move ahead of you like a shadow until the whole world is a ghetto, and you wait.
Marlon James quotes: Maybe because is December. After all, only when we come to Revelation that we take stock of Genesis, right? Maybe because is December. After all, only when we come to Revelation that we take stock of Genesis, right?
Marlon James quotes: Jamaica never gets worse or better, it just finds new ways to stay the same. Jamaica never gets worse or better, it just finds new ways to stay the same.
Marlon James quotes: People would say that if the Rum Preacher was all that stood between Heaven and Hell, then everybody had better stock up on asbestos. People would say that if the Rum Preacher was all that stood between Heaven and Hell, then everybody had better stock up on asbestos.
Marlon James quotes: Because homophobia is still largely driven by the church, it's legitimised. It's also tied to sexism, because those two are never far apart. Because homophobia is still largely driven by the church, it's legitimised. It's also tied to sexism, because those two are never far apart.
Marlon James quotes: Preacher says there is a god-shaped void in everybody life but the only thing ghetto people can fill a void with is void. Preacher says there is a god-shaped void in everybody life but the only thing ghetto people can fill a void with is void.
Marlon James quotes: If your depiction of loss doesn't make the reader feel loss, then you didn't depict it right. If your depiction of loss doesn't make the reader feel loss, then you didn't depict it right.
Marlon James quotes: He say how the country will thanks us one day and we nod like we understand. But He say how the country will thanks us one day and we nod like we understand. But
Marlon James quotes: And killing don't need no reason. This is ghetto. Reason is for rich people. We have madness. And killing don't need no reason. This is ghetto. Reason is for rich people. We have madness.
Marlon James quotes: We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom. We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.
Marlon James quotes: Gun Court lockup. He would still be there if Daddy didn't Gun Court lockup. He would still be there if Daddy didn't
Marlon James quotes: People with a plan see and wait for the right time. People with a plan see and wait for the right time.
Marlon James quotes: My mother is so afraid of trouble that trouble sticks to her close just because he never gets tired of proving a point. My mother is so afraid of trouble that trouble sticks to her close just because he never gets tired of proving a point.
Marlon James quotes: Soldier don't act like we is crime and them is order, soldier act like we is enemy and this is war. Soldier don't act like we is crime and them is order, soldier act like we is enemy and this is war.
Marlon James quotes: - Little pussy like me still have bigger cock than the two of them, she say. She pull the gag out of Sacco mouth. - What you gonna do, Miss - Little pussy like me still have bigger cock than the two of them, she say. She pull the gag out of Sacco mouth. - What you gonna do, Miss
Marlon James quotes: Nobody ever own a gun. You don't know that until you own one. Nobody ever own a gun. You don't know that until you own one.
Marlon James quotes: But he starting to confuse representing people with owning them, and soon even he going need a reckoning. But he starting to confuse representing people with owning them, and soon even he going need a reckoning.
Marlon James quotes: Some of the craziest aspects about 'Weeper' were the things I found out to be true. I mean, true of people. Some of the craziest aspects about 'Weeper' were the things I found out to be true. I mean, true of people.
Marlon James quotes: The dream didn't leave, people just don't know a nightmare when they right in the middle of one. The dream didn't leave, people just don't know a nightmare when they right in the middle of one.
Marlon James quotes: I want to lie down in the grass on the sidewalk and I want to run and keep running. I want to lie down in the grass on the sidewalk and I want to run and keep running.
Marlon James quotes: What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings. What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings.
Marlon James quotes: The problem with proving something is that instead of leaving you alone people never stop giving you new things to prove, harder things. The problem with proving something is that instead of leaving you alone people never stop giving you new things to prove, harder things.

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