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Quotes by Rwandan Authors
"Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority."
"When you start doing the impossible, you make it possible."
"Writing is magic happening on paper."
"Love has its own eyes, and they are more efficient at the beginning and faulty at the end."
"On close analysis, it would seem that there is a possibility that we are god's robots."
"Life is like water in a glass. Drop by drop the glass empties."
"When you finally understand the meaning of life, you come to the conclusion it has none after all."
"Opportunity is always coming but never knocks on the door. You have to get up and meet him."
"We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers."
"If you believe that God is good and that He loves you without regard to whom you are or what you do, you will worship Him wholeheartedly. You will praise him with thanksgiving. If you believe He is angry against you, you will come to him with fear and trying to appease his anger. And you don't know when His anger will be over. Such a god keeps you in a perpetual psychological anguish. That is the typical kind of god we usually worship. That is the typical god approved by authority."
"It's impossible to do science without faith. Sometimes scientists build theories on the premises of faulty assumptions until they discover they were in error and begin again from square one until they discover the true theory. It's quite different with theologians, they build false theory upon false theory until they give you detailed descriptions of heaven and hell and construct dogmas to protect their errors and if you dare say they are in error they condemn you to eternal damnation they arrived at through false theories."
"Never be an insincere friend, never be manipulative, one day you will be discovered and lose everything."
"It's futile to talk reason to anger."
"No holy book is more inspired than the other. They are all inspired according to their gods."
"Never declare Fate your enemy; she does not take lightly declarations of war. Declare your friendship to her instead, and smile in hope of better days."
"Today almost everybody is a writer, the enormous publish button on blogs and websites begs you everywhere to click on it! And bam you are a writer. To hell with agents and publishing houses and rejection letters. Immortality for you is on the click of a mouth! We are advancing at the speed of light! You can become an author at 140 characters. To hell with long winding sentences and long hours of scratching the head, the immortals of today instantly get a "like" and they instantly enter the pantheon! They seat side by side Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, St Paul, Buddha, Martin Luther, Rousseau, Bangambiki."
"I used to give too much importance to reason until I discovered the world was shaped not by reason but by emotion."
"Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world."
"Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam, Why doesn't the Ayatollahs convert to Buddhism, Why isn't Buddhism swept away? Religious leaders know that all religions are equal; they know that no one of them has the monopoly to the knowledge of God. They know that each religion is trying to find the hidden God and that no one religion can claim to have found him beyond doubt. That's why they remain where they are and respect each other."
"When you look down on yourself, you set an example on how others should treat you."
"The true god has no beginning and has no end, it was not begotten and cannot beget, it cannot die and resurrect. He is responsible of everything good and evil and he is the sustainer of life. If he can save he saves all without distinction."
"Friend: A potential enemy with whom relations have not yet deteriorated to all-out war."
"My gut instinct is that these heavens and hells exist nowhere else except in our hearts and minds."
"Death is the great incorruptible corruptor."
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