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One Quotes by Elif Safak
- Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and higher, elating the…
- We're stuck. We're stuck between the East and the West. Between the past and the future. On the one hand there are the secular modernists,…
- Identity politics divides us; fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations, the other in nuances. One draws boundaries, the other recognizes no frontiers. Identity…
- We're born into a certain family, nation, class. But if we have no connection whatsoever with the worlds beyond the one we take for granted,…
- Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed with pure waters,…
- How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is easy to enjoy…
- You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of books. When I've read a book, I don't…
- The universe is one being. Everything and everyone is interconnected through an invisible web of stories. Whether we are aware of it or not, we…
- I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One leg of the…
- What i’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead of insisting on…
- Perhaps this is why lunatics have a harder time dating, not because they are off the wall but because it is hard to find soemone…
- Because time is a drop in the ocean, and you cannot measure off one drop against another to see which one is bigger, which one…
- Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?
- One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated when I couldn’t…
- While the parts change, the whole always remains the same. For every thief who departs this world, a new one is born. And every decent…
- Bountiful is your life, full and complete. Or so you think, until someone comes along and makes you realize what you have been missing all…
- I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee.
- For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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