"I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and failed. Since I've been trained to write, I do that as a defense against total despair. And seeing people like you, who are actively engaged in trying to salvage pieces of our wrecked lives, gives me hope that after all we are not alone."

-- Ayi Kwei Armah

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“A relationship should not suppress our adventure or suppress the speed with which we learn the lessons that are there for us to learn.”
“The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful.”
“Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.”
“Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the corn, it is true, but it is to feed upon the chaff. I am sorry to add that they who are always speaking ill of others are also very apt to be doing ill to them. It requires some talent and some generosity to find out talent and generosity in others, though nothing but self-conceit and malice are needed to discover or to imagine faults. It is much easier for an ill-natured man than for a good-natured man to be smart and witty.”
“Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender”
“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.”
“Great companies don't just have one founding moment. They have many founding moments.”
“I often said that never in the history of the world did one man receive so much faith and trust as Hitler. Similary, no one has ever betrayed so many people and abused so much good faith as he did.”

Source : Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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