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Quotes by Rwandan Authors
"After losing faith, even an atheist feels a yawning void in his soul that needs filling; there is nothing imaginable that he can fill with it. It was all along meant to be filled with the sacred, with the unknown and unknowable power. That's the curse or blessing of humanity."
"You cannot write if you are not on fire."
"The most successful are not the most perfect, but the imperfect who dare to believe that they can despite the damning verdict."
"Every revolution starts with the aim to help the poor, but when the poor get it they forget who they were and become the new oppressors. The cycle goes on forever."
"The teachers of hell should be sent there first to be able to describe it accurately."
"Life has a positive and negative side. Happy people ignore the negative side."
"A genuine smile can speak a thousand words."
"Can anyone maintain power without lying? It looks to me like living without breathing. Morality apart, I think some evils are part and parcel of nature and we cannot do without them. Sometimes evil is even necessary to run this evil nature."
"Wife: a former girlfriend."
"Belief in God puts our life on autopilot. We know that someone up there is watching us and is in control. Losing our faith puts off the autopilot, we have to run it manually, and check if everything is alright for ourselves. No wonder religion has a wide appeal; most of us are lazy and would like a supreme being to be in charge."
"When you think there is nothing left to improve on, your business dies, for there is no shortage of innovators."
"The Golden Mean is for the weakling, it was not meant for the likes of Alexander the Great, Cyrus, Pharaohs, or Hitlers of the world."
"Before marriage a man prays that she accepts, after marriage a woman prays that he accepts."
"If there are any ifs to salvation then no one is saved by grace. Everyone saves himself who can meet the requirements."
"If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs."
"Truth is like beauty, it lies in the mind of the beholder."
"When you have doubts about God, the right position to take is agnosticism, atheism is outright arrogance."
"Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course it's an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinction."
"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."
"When your dream turns into a nightmare, rise to the challenge and slaughter the dragons."
"Those who would give us equal opportunity for everybody are threatened by it. They are afraid to lose their privileged positions. They pay lip service to it, they act by half measures and do everything to violate the laws they have themselves instituted to make sure the high class is always high. It never changes, it always goes in a circle, when the oppressed fight and get to the top, and they become the new elite and forget the promises."
"After a long time in laboratories, psychologists have discovered the holy grail of a happy marriage: I applied it and it didn't work."
"False prophet: A prophet whose god is not yet known."
"You never know what you will write until you write it."
"Civilization has made life a humanized jungle, a sugar coated jungle, but still a jungle."
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