"Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that doesn't mean you're not free to try. A return to his native Nigeria plunges Cole's charming narrator into a tempest of chaos, contradiction, and kinship in a place both endearingly familiar and unnervingly strange. The result is a tale that engages and disturbs."

-- Billy Collins

#Mean Quotes #Home Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Women love only those whom they do not know!”

Source : Mikhail Lermontov (2012). “A Hero of Our Time”, p.108, Courier Corporation
“I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.”
“Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us by its connections to read some statement or statute applicable to the conscious world.”

Source : Thomas Starr King (1864). “The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry”, p.394
“You know youâ€™re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.”
“In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.”
“Idleness is paralysis.”
“What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing since O. Henry,' but rather the one who will toss the manuscript down in disgust, with 'You know better than that! It's rotten! Do it all over again!'”
“If Mandela were a comedian, I bet he would never get mad at a heckler, he'd give him or her a hug.”

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