"Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre."

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Taiye Selasi

#Who I Am Quotes #Defining Quotes #Twins Quotes

“It was heartbreaking . . . I think it was disappointing because I had such an identity in being 'Mrs. Parker', and being a wife, and so when that's taken away from you, you [think], 'Who am I?”
“I don't necessarily agree with everything I read about my films, but I wouldn't highlight a specific misconception: If people think this or that about myself or my work, they must have their reasons.”
“WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish. There is my desert.”
“We cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.”
“It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.”
“I prefer theatre to television - you get to feel the love.”
“There was an unexpected freedom in ï¬nding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!”

Source : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2009). “The Palace of Illusions: A Novel”, p.342, Anchor
“Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.”

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