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My friend Ronald Gottesman says...that the cause of all our trouble is the belief in an essential, pure identity: religious, ethnic, historical,…
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What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.
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If you want to know about Africa, read our literature - and not just 'Things Fall Apart,' because that would be like…
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Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.
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In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.
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People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes
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What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of…
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You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness…
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What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of…
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Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.
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That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of…
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My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this…
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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
— Horace
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A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
— William Shenstone
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The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, ... grows…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high…
— Laozi
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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it…
— James Boswell
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Do not believe that man grows. No: he is born suddenly-a word, in a moment, penetrates his heart to a new throb.…
— Ghassan Kanafani
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In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.
— George R. R. Martin
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I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives.…
— Albert Einstein
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As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material…
— Charles Lindbergh
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In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.
— Friedrich Schiller
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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable…
— Francois Rabelais
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