"I think fiction allows us to sit for a while with people we would rather not meet."

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Source : Uwem Akpan (2009). “Say You're One of Them”, Back Bay Books

Uwem Akpan

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Chaos is the soul of creation. It plows the ground of intuition. Without chaos, nothing will grow.”
“Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties.”
“It is not easy to find perfect men in whom there is nothing to criticize.”
“I am now pretty far advanced in life, and all my views are center'd in the Happiness and well-fare of my children; you will therefore find from me every Indulgence which you have a right to expect from an affectionate Parent.”
“I find that my cultural conditioning leads me to focus attention on places where I am unlikely to get what I want. I developed NVC as a way to train my attention-to shine the light of consciousness-on places that have the potential to yield what I am seeking.”
“I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.”
“Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.”

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