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