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As the baby latched on with surprising fierceness, the nurse offered her own prayer.
Let her be...
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MAYANK KUMAR LOUTERIYA They're still living on internal yolk when we release them. They have to learn to feed within one we...
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I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.
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UZO ADUBA
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer m... CYRIL CONNOLLY We are the books we read and the things we love.
CATH CROWLEY You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you.
MICHAEL PRYOR I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become.
EMMA PAUL It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru...
SUDHIR KAKAR If you argue with a fool, you become a fool.
L.A. HILDEN Everyday is another chance to do something great.
EMMA PAUL
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm! COLETTE I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the...
MELVILLE FULLER Shelley, you’re just like that oyster.” God confronted me on the deeper areas of my life that I ...
SHELLEY LUBBEN Become my muse. And let me paint you with my words...
AVIJEET DAS And to love such a librarian requires a surrendering to her eccentricities, a bowing to her patholog...
JESSE GILES CHRISTIANSEN
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL To contribute to the world in your own way, live a life that inspires other to live their lives in t...
LORRIN L. LEE Yes. We say, but don't live up to it.
KAYLA RAE You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults,...
SUDHIR KAKAR
The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experi... LIBBA BRAY
Imagine a world without words! Imagine a world without thoughts! Imagine a world without actions! If... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH She wanted to be a writer and live on past her death.
DERRICK NULL
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY
I don't want any promises, I won't have false hopes, I won't be romantic about myself. I can't live ... KATHERINE ANNE PORTER Şi, vorbind mai general, oricare ţi-ar fi linia în viaţă, dacă constaţi că alţii nu-ţi pre...
BERTRAND RUSSELL, ÎN CăUTAREA FERICIRII We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
KAREN TODD SCARPULLA
A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while. PATRICK NESS i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN
I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C.
As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God an... MOTHER THERESA
Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of pl...
TAIYE SELASI I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went ...
TAIYE SELASI I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
TAIYE SELASI That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere...
TAIYE SELASI I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautifu...
TAIYE SELASI The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.
TAIYE SELASI When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everyt...
TAIYE SELASI As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
TAIYE SELASI I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ...
TAIYE SELASI So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if...
TAIYE SELASI The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra...
TAIYE SELASI As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their w...
TAIYE SELASI The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don...
TAIYE SELASI When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely fe...
TAIYE SELASI I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in S...
TAIYE SELASI The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
TAIYE SELASI Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything t...
TAIYE SELASI Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't...
TAIYE SELASI I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
TAIYE SELASI I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they&...
TAIYE SELASI She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the wo...
TAIYE SELASI
Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you ... LEE CHILD
Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw ... RICHARD DAWKINS
The power of the writer is to capture the thoughts live and present them as they appeared in his min... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them. DEYTH BANGER One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much ...
DENISE LEVERTOV
People who live in their own little world, never get to enjoy the world of others. ANONYMOUS
Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world... SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Last words of wisdom. Whoever you were as a child, she's your future.
CHERISE WOLAS
I want to release six songs, let people listen to those, let them chill for a second, do a tour, rel... BEBE REXHA
Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her ow... LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape fro... OSCAR WILDE There was no one to be seen so she gave in freely to her sobs as she made her way home, pressed her ...
JOHN AJVIDE LINDQVIST I'm about to do something very clever and a tiny bit against the rules of the universe. It's importa...
TOMMY DONBAVAND Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY When you let go of something good, prepare to grasp something better.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES As the support to a person increases, so should be the rise of the doubt either on his/her intention...
ANUJ SOMANY
I will never be able to read my mothers favourite books without thinking of her - an when I pass the... WILL SCHWALBE
Stop holding-on to the wrong people. Let them go on their own way; if not for you, then for them. BRYANT MCGILL
As the baby latched on with surprising fierceness, the nurse offered her own prayer.Let her be...
KIERSTEN WHITE Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Boring people live boring lives.
HABEEB AKANDE Also it is not just about giving a budget to Agriculture, we must ensure that the budgeted amount is...
SOTONYE ANGA
I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a sin... EMMA DONOGHUE Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live...
SUSAN GRIFFIN
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord wit... DANIEL QUINN Actions speak in volume while words are but a mere whisper in a violent wind
TAURUS MORGAN In a world of words, anything is possible...
LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE You shine the light and you let them come out with their own words and they'll be exposed for what t...
KAREN AROESTY That’s not fair!
Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo...
JOHN M SHEEHAN The boy wanted to be here [in Miami], but he's obliged to live in an absurd system, ... Fidel doesn'...
ELIAN GONZALEZ I am no writer. Her sparkling eyes made my fingers write words in the sand. Her radiant smile made m...
AVIJEET DAS I am no writer. Her sparkling eyes made my fingers write words in the sand, Her radiant smile made m...
AVIJEET DAS
It’s natural for people to feel superior to those under them. It requires a conscious effort to va... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Words will always be the words, the world will change.
MAYANK KUMAR LOUTERIYA They're still living on internal yolk when we release them. They have to learn to feed within one we...
JAKE LEYENAAR How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the wor... DANIEL QUINN
I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions. RACHEL CORRIE
You really have to love words if you’re going to be a writer, because as a writer, you certainly s... NATALIE BABBITT As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always...
GAO XINGJIAN I needed to reiterate to them as the season went on, this is their own team.
JEFF PUSTINA It's important to let them progress at their own speed and let them be self-motivated.
HELEN DUGAN
Your journey is completely yours. It is unique. Others may try to steal part of it, tell it in their... KEMI SOGUNLE
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world let... LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO
