"One of the chief characteristics of a mob……" — Teju Cole
"One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces."
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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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More Characteristics Quotes
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
— Aristophanes
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
— Gaston Bachelard
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and…
— Walter Bagehot
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The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security…
— Dave Barry
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It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.
— Emma Bonino
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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is…
— Edward de Bono
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The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before,…
— Kobe Bryant
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
— Warren Buffett
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I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
— Lord Chesterfield
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