"My heritage will always be an element in my work but as I've written, traveled, and lived more, I've found that the questions and the search - for meaning, for "home," for tribe - consume me more than trying to crank out one identity or one homeland."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Diana Abu-Jaber

#Home Quotes #Trying Quotes #Identity Quotes

“Whisky is liquid sunshine.”
“I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.”
“The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.”
“I can be a fairly hands-on editor, and when I'm editing someone I feel intensely invested in that writer and her work. I love helping to shape a book, and I feel very privileged to get to do that with writers I'm excited about. I think doing that work for the past six years has changed me, and it better prepared me for the questions and suggestions.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.
“Divorce transforms habit into drama.”
“Let me assure you that all of our pets, and animals of every kind will be with us for eternity on the Other Side.”
“To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.”

Source : Jacques Maritain (1966). “A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings”

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