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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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