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Dinaw Mengestu has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There are those who wake up each morning to conquer the day, and then there are those of us who wake up…
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It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even…
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It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn…
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The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any two people…
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My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward…
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The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to…
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At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon…
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We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we…
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I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human…
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Don't think about how your characters sound, but how they see. Watch the world through their eyes - study the extraordinary and…
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You see, at the beginning we weren't fighters. We weren't yellers or throwers, even if we eventually came to be. It would…
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I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.
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Our first and last love is self-love.
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Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have…
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"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial…
— John Ruskin
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It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn…
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Accept your place in the sun as it was originally before the creation of this world... The black man is the first…
— Elijah Muhammad
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Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.
— Charles Simmons
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And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first…
— Plato
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As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide…
— John Mott
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First and last follow each other.
— Laozi
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