"Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending."

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Source : "The Foxes Come at Night by Cees Nooteboom - review" by Alberto Manguel, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

Cees Nooteboom

#Talking Quotes #Helping Quotes #Language Quotes

“We are here to love, not to judge. I'd been blaming and raging. I certainly wasn't loving my daughter that afternoon as God loves me. God's love doesn't insist on perfection or even good common sense. Why then should I demand more of those I love? With this tiny change in perspective I began to see the need for correction wasn't in my daughter, but in me.”
“The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.”
“I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later”
“Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight. From Kiev to Manhattan, Brighton Beach and Bellevue, Michael Alenyikov lays out a series of compelling arguments for brotherhood between brothers, between lovers, between men from an old country. Alenyikov confronts big subjectsâ€”illness and madness, sex and love in the age of AIDS, old and new world values, a fallen wall, the metaphysics of survival, the march of generations.”
“I don't think actresses' lives in general are very good”
“I've always been a big fan of Bill Paxton, and I met him at the American Pie premiere”
“Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.”
“When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.”

Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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