"It's hard sometimes to remember why we do……" — Dinaw Mengestu
"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 a real decision that turns everything in one direction, but that's not always true, is it? We just fall into our lives."
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Dinaw Mengestu
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23 Quotes by Dinaw Mengestu
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There are those who wake up each morning to conquer the day, and then there are those of us who…
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It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not…
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The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any…
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My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in…
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The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they…
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At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came…
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We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away,…
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I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where…
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Don't think about how your characters sound, but how they see. Watch the world through their eyes - study the…
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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.…
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I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.
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When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was…
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