"Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois."

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Sayed Kashua

#Writing Quotes #Here I Am Quotes #Illinois Quotes

“As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.”
“Land is immortal, for it harbors the mysteries of creation.”
“Barney Kessel was 'Mr. Guitar,' the foremost jazz guitarist of his generation. He had an amazing imagination, his solos were incredible, he swung his tail off, he was a heck of an arranger and could out-read anybody...”
“I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.”
“Look, I understand that for a lot of people, the US is superior to their country of residence in myriad ways, but I'm Australian. We have it all: the weather, the beautiful cities, the brand of football that involves neither padding yourself up like Santa Claus nor standing in a line in front of goal and covering your testicles.”
“If you are reading this, and feel discouraged by an inability to communicate to others your own feelings about the importance of an active space development effort, comfort yourself with this thought. If you want to be on the leading edge of anything, you have by definition to be a couple of standard deviations away from most people. That makes you an odd-ball. The trick is to learn to accept it, then to like it-and keep on making lots of noise for what you believe in.”
“The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as to what loyalty to our country demands, and an intolerant majority, swayed by passion or by fear, may be prone in the future, as it has been in the past, to stamp as disloyal opinions with which it disagrees.”
“Gifts and abilities, no matter how magnificent, are either limited or enhanced by character.”

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