"I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford."

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Taiye Selasi

#Writing Quotes #Play Quotes #Oxford Quotes

“Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.”
“The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.”
“I don't believe in paying full price for clothing.”
“Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.”
“I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.”

Source : Christiaan Barnard (1979). “The best medicine”
“You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.”
“There's more to life than listening to rock music.”

Source : "Pixies Interview". Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. July 6, 2009.
“I have to stay positive and live for today and tomorrow.”

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