"Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot."

-- Chris Abani

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“When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years; when I was 40, nobody wanted me; I couldn't get a job.”

Source : "'Gandhi' Is Winner Of Eight Academy Awards" by Aljean Harmetz, www.nytimes.com. April 12, 1983.
“Try a little harder to be a little better.”
“The devil isnâ€™t a true lion; he just walks around roaring like one trying to intimidate the Body of Christ. But the truth is, heâ€™s had his teeth pulled, and all he can do now is gum you.”
“Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.”
“Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.”
“A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.”
“There are "extremists" in the free software world, but that's one major reason why I don't call what I do "free software" any more. I don't want to be associated with the people for whom it's about exclusion and hatred.”
“Failure to spend the [presentation] time wisely and well, failure to educate, entertain, elucidate, enlighten, and most important of all, failure to maintain attention and interest should be punishable by stoning. There is no excuse for tedium.”

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