"After the phone call from The New Yorker, I walked more than a mile to church to thank God. But then I told God I would talk to Him another time and darted home."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Uwem Akpan

#Home Quotes #Phones Quotes #Thank God Quotes

“If you can't enjoy the game unless you are pretty sure your team is going to win, baseball is not the game for you. Remember, the best team in baseball in any year is going to be beaten about 60 times.”
“The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.”
“I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.”

Source : "Rapped up in tweed" by Simon Mills, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2008.
“It is perfectly logical and proper to recognize differences between races and colors and creeds - as long as we don't classify them as being better or worse.”

Source : Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”
“Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.”
“Even the lowest of the low have the Atman (Soul) inside, which never dies and never is born, immortal, without beginning or end, the all pure, omnipotent and omnipresent Atman!”
“Many childrens writers dont have children of their own”
“These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.”

Source : "Ricky Martin says he's 'a fortunate homosexual man'" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. March 29, 2010.

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