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Quotes by Rwandan Authors

"I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just expressing myself and my opinions. It's ok if my opinions are different from those of the reader, each of us can have his own opinions. So writing is like talking, if you are afraid of writing, you may end up being afraid of talking."

"Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies."

"Even if you are not evil, pretend to be. It will put off some abuse."

"No one can claim perfection, that's why everyone needs a second chance ad infinitum."

"A good man? A man who successfully conceals his evil actions."

"Writing is magic happening on paper."

"On close analysis, it would seem that there is a possibility that we are god's robots."

"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."

"Failure is an opportunity to learn again."

"I used to give too much importance to reason until I discovered the world was shaped not by reason but by emotion."

"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."

"In leadership, the way up is down. Serve before you get served."

"A writer is never alone, he is always in conversation with himself."

"Break your shackles and reach out to your freedom. Break to pieces whatever indoctrination and programming that holds you hostage. The world is yours. Get possession of it."

"Every time you say it is impossible, you shoot yourself in the foot."

"If there is no reward, there is no reason to run."

"If you aren't destroying your enemies, it's because you have been conquered and assimilated, you do not even have an idea of who your enemies are. You have been brainwashed into believing you are your own enemy, and you are set against yourself. The enemy is laughing at you as you tear yourself to pieces. That is the most effective warfare an enemy can launch on his foes: confounding them."

"An entrepreneur is not deterred by his lack of perfection, he knows no one else is."

"When you think there is nothing left to improve on, your business dies, for there is no shortage of innovators."

"Writing a book is burning your brain to enlighten another man's mind."
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