"They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us."

-- Kamila Shamsie

#Thinking Quotes #Needs Quotes #Return Quotes

“The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.”
“I grew up poor, but I didn't have poor dreams”
“As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.”
“I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood.”
“Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.”
“When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific imagesÂ—things that have come into my head, totally abstracted from any narrative, that I've fixated on. After that, I construct a world, or an area, into which that general setting, that atmosphere, and the specific images I've focused on can fit.”
“All men hear is blah, blah, blah, blah, SEX, blah, blah, blah, FOOD, blah, blah, blah, BEER.”
“We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.”

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