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Quotes by Rwandan Authors
"Writing a book is burning your brain to enlighten another man's mind."
"If I can write, who possibly can't. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing."
"Don't expect it to be given to you. It is there already. Get it if you want it."
"Politicians are a higher breed of men. They know that this world is ruthless and that they must live accordingly to cope with it."
"The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we live."
"Most politicians would love to lead politically blind people."
"Civilization has made life a humanized jungle, a sugar coated jungle, but still a jungle."
"My wife does not need the whole country to play politics with. We are only the two of us at home but she plays the highest form of politics with me. That's why I don't understand her ways. I think I need to do a bit of political science to understand her."
"If free will means to do what you want, then it does not exist. Many of its staunchest proponents have met the wheel of fate without opposing it."
"Many smiling faces hide a bleeding heart."
"People tell all kinds of lies to save their skins."
"Never create doubt in a person. Doubts have the habit of hanging around even if the original cause is over. Doubt never wants to be caught unawares again."
"An entrepreneur is a man who knows he can fail, but he does not accept to fail before he actually fails, and when he fails he learns from his errors and moves on."
"Never advise a man against his wife or a wife against his husband. When they come together again you will be the archenemy. When they separate, the fault will all be yours."
"Good at the wrong place and time becomes evil, evil in the right place and time becomes good."
"Billions of years before I was born I did not need religion, why should I need it, billions of years after I cease to exist."
"Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it."
"Even if everybody says it's impossible, with determination, there is always something you can do. The last thing is to give up without trying."
"A beautiful lady with an evil heart is like a hundred dollar note cut in two with one piece missing."
"Many writers write because they've been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers."
"If someone can't forgive, it's because he does not love."
"Visionaries will always meet opposition from weak minds but the seeds they plant always save the world."
"There are friendships that are greater than family bonds, but they are very rare."
"Writing is exposing yourself to strangers."
"Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes in their own rights and feel like unbelievers will one day overrun their strongholds."
"Some people are good only because they are afraid of punishment. These justify why we need government."
"Let no one ever intimidate you, you are standing on no one's ground. But again, some have claimed the earth as their own and usurped power from the rest of us. But they are usurpers; power belongs to every one of us. Seek it as much as possible. There is no shame in that. In fact it's a necessity. Either you have power or you are trampled to death in the stampede to get to the top."
"Never laugh at the fate of others, you are the next."
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