"It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself."

-- Ibn Ata Allah

#Wisdom Quotes #Islamic Quotes #May Quotes

“We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.”
“Fear based parenting is the surest way to create intimidated children.”
“Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.”
“Midnight blue is the only color that can ever compete with black.”
“There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.”
“Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not before you have read Thomas Mann in any case. Learn by copying, sentence by sentence some of the masters. Copy Coetzee's or Sebald's sentences and see what happens to your story. Consider creative non-fiction if you want to stay in South Africa. It might be the way to go. Never neglect back and hamstring exercises, otherwise you won't be able to write your novel. One needs one's buttocks to think.”
“Writing the book automatically made me accept myself and love myself more.”

Source : "Love & Hip Hop’s Erica Mena Goes ‘Underneath It All’". Interview with Thomas C. Burrell, www.parlemag.com. April 30, 2013.
“A global economy requires a global currency.”

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