Sometimes you don't get but one mistake, if the one you pick is bad enough. - Madison Smartt Bell

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I naively thought I had to go door to door, find somebody who could record me singing some songs. I didn't know Music Row, I didn't know anything! So after six or seven months, I went back home and went to college.

Madison Smartt Bell

Sometimes you don't get but one mistake, if the one you pick is bad enough.

Bad, Enough, Mistake, Pick, Sometimes

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Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship to books and not to living masters of the craft.

Activity, Book, Craft, Doubt, Writing

I dont call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I dont.

Christian, Good, Know, Thinking, Very Good

Jeremy Popkin's collection of first-person narratives of the Haitian Revolution is an extremely valuable work, accessible, sound and intelligent. I only wish such a book had been available fifteen years ago when I was in the early stages of researching my series of novels. Popkin has been deft and tactful in stitching together these excerpts, and as a result, he manages to tell a complete version of the Revolution almost entirely in the words of the people who experienced it-this book engaged me deeply.

Book, Early, Experienced, Intelligent, Version, Years

Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.

1960S, Begin, Begin Again, Condition, Ends

Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.

African, Events, Haiti, Rose, Slaves

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Self-respecting men and women think about the consequences of their actions-and are willing to take responsibility for them.

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