"There is an expectation that we can talk……" — Teju Cole

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38 Quotes by Teju Cole

Teju Cole has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking.
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of…
To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both…
I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant…
Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air…
But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to…
It is dangerous to live in a secure world.
I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.
I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for…
The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.
It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.
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 Expectation Quotes

This quote is filed under Expectation Quotes, one of 778 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976.… — Michele Bachmann
Expectation is the mother of all frustration. — Antonio Banderas
People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation… — Halle Berry
If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life… — Cate Blanchett
'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line… — Anthony Bourdain
There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation. — Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. — Charlotte Bronte
Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that… — James L. Buckley
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to… — Fanny Burney
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. — Amos Bronson Alcott
An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me. — Samuel Alexander
When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the… — Noam Chomsky

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