"There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry."

-- Khaled Hosseini

#Writing Quotes #Literature Quotes #Tradition Quotes

“You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you”
“And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.”
“Damon Lindelof is hypnotizing. His imagination is without limits, and Tom Perrotta, as well. You begin to just trust, completely, where the story is going, knowing that you're entirely safe in the truthfulness of it.”
“The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.”
“My grandmother told a story that when they used to leave from Southampton to go into the City, because he had apartment buildings in Queens - I was born in Astoria, Queens - they had apartment buildings in Queens and Manhattan, different businesses, and she wanted to pick blueberries on the side of the road and he wouldn't stop, so my grandma used to throw her purse out the window. She never had less than $4,000 cash, back in the 20s, and he would then stop the car and she would pick blueberries. And, he never had a record.”
“A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.”
“Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4,000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan, Italy than to Vancouver.”
“Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery”

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