"So much of who we are is where we have been."

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Source : William Langewiesche (2011). “Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert”, p.46, Vintage

William Langewiesche

#Who We Are Quotes

“If ever I think I've got something so important to say or share with the world that everyone else should sit up and take notice, I just remember who I really am: a pretty ordinary person who just happens to enjoy telling stories.”

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“No, no, one can imagine nothing in the world, not the least thing. Everything is composed of so many isolated details that are not to be foreseen. In one's imagining one passes over them and hasty as one is doesn't notice that they are missing. But realities are slow and indescribably detailed.”
“I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.”
“Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.”
“People don't believe that their actions really and truly are going to make a difference. But kids get it. They know. And they get all excited about the difference they're making.”
“The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.”
“Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for the unfolding of creative talents. In neither art, music, literature, technology and social theory, nor planning have the Universities figured as originators or as seedbeds of new talents and energies.”
“Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.”

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