"Even if you're in charge of the grand story there's still memory. The other stories do not go away."

-- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

#Memories Quotes #Going Away Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I love bold, colorful party dresses because they don't need accessories. Just throw one on and you're done.”
“I would say that all successful people are "fighters." They're passionate and determined. They see not only what they want out of life, but what they were built for, and fight for it.”

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“I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.”
“Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.”
“If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?”
“But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?”
“Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and condemning themselves, of handling over their souls?”
“I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck.”

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