"I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm afraid, but I loved Flaubert. I loved the 19th-century classics. I love Thomas Hardy. I wanted to be a goof on a bus, but I wanted to write more."

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Robert Stone

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Literature Quotes

“I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the play thing of one small corner of the world”
“There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.”
“Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.”
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
“Close your eyes and look inside, A mirror shines within; To find where you are going, First see where you have been.”
“They say I look and sound ugly but I don't be carin.”
“Courage is how bad you want it.”
“Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness..”

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