"I don't have much of an imagination, but I have a mind bank of details, which I play with. It's how I daydream, so writing like that is natural for me."

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Sefi Atta

#Writing Quotes #Play Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“Meaning is context bound, but context is boundless”

Source : Jonathan Culler (2014). “On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism”, p.99, Cornell University Press
“Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.”
“It was my idea that if you started any kind of business, you should begin somewhere near where you hoped to end. In other words, if I wanted to make really good clothes to order, I would start out making good, and therefore expensive, clothes to order. If I started making inexpensive clothes, I thought probably I'd die making them.”
“Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best”
“You know whatÂ intimacyÂ is? It'sÂ into-me-you-see.”
“Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the defensive and atomized. However eloquent, their individual voices cannot compete with the roar of militant Islam's determination, money (much of it from overseas) and violence. As a result, militant Islam, with its West-phobia and goal of world hegemony, dominates Islam in the West and appears to many to be the only kind of Islam.”

Source : "Voices of Islam". New York Post, September 23, 2003.
“Get outside of their comfort zone and try something new. You never truly grow when you're too comfortable.”

Source : "Jacob Vargas from Sons of Anarchy: Making the Most of Pain, Chaos, and Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a sin we need to take deadly seriously.”

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