"My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection."

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Source : "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Reflection Quotes

“Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same”
“I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”
“There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.”
“Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.”
“The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.”
“Congressmen are not evil people, they're mostly sort of seismographs with antennae; they're waiting - they're more worried about losing their jobs than Assistant Deans of Men in the Ivy League.”

Source : Source: openvault.wgbh.org
“Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used.”
“Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility.”

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