"Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls, and through those holes we can get a glimpse of the other and sometimes even like what we see."

--

Elif Safak

#Wall Quotes #Glimpse Quotes #Stories Quotes

“There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.”
“It makes me feel good. Being a foreigner, (the American fans) they make me feel like I'm a citizen of this country.”
“Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law.”
“The Ten Commandments have been kicked out of schools. We're killing 37 hundred-something-thousand babies a day. . . . I don't know, 3,700 a day or something like that. A million a day, I don't know. I'm not good with numbers. We're killing lots of babies every day. It's infanticide. Its genocide. We are . . . How can God bless our country, seriously?”
“At Death we are aware that we are more than just our physical bodies.”
“But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside.”

Source : "A Musician's Diary". Essay by Mark Heard. "Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of IMAGE". Book by Gregory Wolfe, 2009.
“Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.”

Source : Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin

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