"It's a blindness thing, faith."

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Source : Niall Williams (2014). “History of the Rain: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014”, p.213, A&C Black

Niall Williams

#Blindness Quotes

“How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!”
“Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear”
“There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.”
“You don't need eyes to see, you need vision.”
“A vision of a desired future allows you to engage and identify immediately in your focus with an improved condition. It changes what you perceive and how you perform NOW. It's not about achieving something in time. It's rather about the quality of choices you are making in this moment - what you choose to perceive, feel, and do. It's about getting the most out of your experience.”
“If you're lucky enough to experience love, what you find is that it can sustain you through the most difficult times.”
“I'm not stupid. I can tell what's what.”

Source : "St-Pierre, Diaz go at it on conference call". www.espn.com. March 8, 2013.
“Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.”

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