I know that the fantastic ...

I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.
I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.
 Jamaica Kincaid

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Quotes from the same author

Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.
 Jamaica Kincaid
I've written a book about my mother, and I don't remember anyone going to Antigua or calling up my mother and verifying her life. There is something about this book that drives people mad with the autobiographical question.
 Jamaica Kincaid
Like father like son, like mother like daughter!
 Jamaica Kincaid
It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.
 Jamaica Kincaid
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.
 Jamaica Kincaid