"The world is more outlandish than some peopleâ€™s imaginations."

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Source : Niall Williams (2014). “History of the Rain: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014”, p.6, A&C Black

Niall Williams

#Imagination Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'”
“They who humble themselves before knowledge of any kind generally end up the wiser and as voices with something meaningful to say.”
“Anytime you start a sentence with I AM, you are creating what you are and what you want to be.”
“The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product.”
“If you saw that Yankee pitching too often, there would be a lot of guys doing different jobs.”
“I have been to Iraq on a number of occasions. I was with the first group that went in.”
“The only way to stop it [terrorism] is to work with the leaders of Islamic nations to insure that tolerance of other religions is taught again, that their people believe they have fair opportunities to participate in government and the economy, and that the social and cultural conditions that breed hatred are bred out.”
“There is something myopic and stunted in focussing only on the meaning of words and sentences. And this myopia is especially unfortunate when combined with a rather abstract view of a language as a set of elements and rules for combining these. For the result is to divorce enquiry into meaning from attention to the way words - and gestures, facial expressions, rituals and so on - are embedded in practices, in what Wittgenstein called 'the stream of life'.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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