"If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly."

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#Thinking Quotes #Stories Quotes #Honestly Quotes

“The wonder is not that the world is so easily governed, but that so small a number of persons will suffice for the purpose. There are dead weights in political and legislative bodies as in clocks, and hundreds answer as pulleys who would never do for politicians.”
“Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.”
“Long ago I left heroics to the heroes”

Source : Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.68, A&C Black
“Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. It's often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there.”
“While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important.”
“In a simple direct sense, archaeology is a science that must be lived, must be "seasoned with humanity." Dead archaeology is the driest dust that blows.”
“Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.”
“I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.”

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