"I was in New York City on 9/11.……" — Teju Cole
"I was in New York City on 9/11. Grief remains from that awful day, but not only grief. There is fear, too, a fear informed by the knowledge that whatever my worst nightmare is, there is someone out there embittered enough to carry it out."
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Teju Cole
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38 Quotes by Teju Cole
Teju Cole has 38 quotes on this site.
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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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But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to…
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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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