"It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe."

--

Source : Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.23, Macmillan

Esi Edugyan

“Long live Iraq! Long live the Iraqi people! Down with the traitors!”
“When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.”

Source : "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.
“A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives ...”
“I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may prevent silver from bending but also prevents it from shining.”
“so many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them ... shovelsfull! ... but hearts? ... very rare! in the last five hundred million years too many ***** and gastric tubes to count ... but hearts? ... on your fingers! ...”
“When we have that scene where I shoot that huge machine gun, my first thought was "Why does anybody want this? What is the point of something like this?" I know some people feel powerful or whatever and I'm just like, " I feel like I want nothing to do with this."”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again.”
“Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.”

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