"But a book suggests conversation: one person is……" — Teju Cole
"But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange. So I read aloud with myself as the audience, and gave voice to another's words."
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Teju Cole
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38 Quotes by Teju Cole
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I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking.
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Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of…
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To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both…
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I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant…
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Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air…
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It is dangerous to live in a secure world.
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I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.
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I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for…
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The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.
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It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.
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We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see…
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I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs,…
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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
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I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the…
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's…
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We had no churches, no religious organizations, so sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe…
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Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.
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Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they…
— Marilyn Jager Adams
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There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and…
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The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity…
— Albert Camus
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But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him.…
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He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too…
— Irving Stone
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Thank God for my computer. Sometimes when there is no one to talk to, I talk aloud so that I…
— Beyonce Knowles
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