"Every Kenyan writer has offered me something to hold onto, something to believe in."

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Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

#Believe Quotes

“If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.”
“I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.”
“I love to watch movies and play cricket.”
“Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.”
“Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.”
“Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief.”
“It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.”

Source : Martin Van Buren (1969). “Martin Van Buren, 1782-1862: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”
“Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.”

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