"Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy."

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Source : Zakes Mda (2007). “Ways of Dying: A Novel”, p.168, Macmillan

Zakes Mda

#Elephants Quotes #Doe Quotes #Trunks Quotes

“I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me.”
“I don't think actually that kind of ego check or "I could do better" mentality probably serves better in Hollywood, because it's definitely not a meritocracy. You can look at any number of careers and sort of see that they don't really make sense if it was only based on your movies working either creatively or financially. There are people that move ahead without that, and there are people that don't move ahead even if they did have that.”
“Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows â€” maybe even tomorrow.”
“Never expect anybody - except possibly your analyst - to be as thrilled about your sex life as you are.”
“Do you become in visible?' 'No. I'm there, if you know how to look. I stand between the place you look at and the place you see. Behind what you expect to see. If you expect to see me, you do. I listen in places where no one expects me to be.”

Source : Patricia A. McKillip (2005). “Alphabet Of Thorn”, p.54, Penguin
“Nobody makes a turd like that and lives.”
“What we collectively decide about how to bail out our economy, how to pull our economy out of a ditch and what rules we put in place to make sure this problem does not happen again, will shape our country for the next 50 years. This is it.”
“California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.”

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