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Quotes by Writer
"You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be."
167
"In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die."
167
"Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!"
166
"When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist."
165
"I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic."
165
"Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections."
164
"Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be."
164
"Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?"
164
"Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds."
163
"And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?"
162
"I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it."
161
"Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit."
161
"This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization."
160
"Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974."
160
"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
159
"There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity."
159
"We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations."
158
"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."
156
"Not a living thing was to be seen and the cottages that sat huddled close to the ground remained fast shut; the smoke from the chimneys alone still gave a sign of life."
155
"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies."
155
"Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence."
154
"Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression."
154
"Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them."
153
"The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas."
153
"Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for."
153
"What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be."
153
"The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty."
153
"Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?"
152
"Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience."
152
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