"Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into."

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Source : "Naima" by Hisham Matar, www.newyorker.com. January 24, 2011.

Hisham Matar

“I consider video games a form of design that is amazingly important today and that is going to become even more important in the future, because it is a way we interact with machines and screens.”
“I'm a closet singer-songwriter. That keeps my creative juices flowing.”
“I had no intention of anyone ever finding out what I had done.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it loud enough and it becomes a wall you can't get through.”
“Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?”

Source : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
“Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products.”
“Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.”
“Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by the demands of his safety this must be done.”

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