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Chris Abani

"I have not spoken in three years: not since I left boot camp. It has been three years of a senseless war, and though the reasons for it are clear, and though we will continue to fight until we are ordered to stop--and probably for a while after that--none of us can remember the hate that led us here. We are simply fighting to survive the war. It is a strange place to be at fifteen, bereft of hope and very nearly of your humanity. But that is where I am nonetheless."

Source : Chris Abani (2015). “Song For Night”, p.5, Saqi

Chris Abani

#Hate Quotes #War Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.”
“â€¦ what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names â€” otherwise you would be selling nothing â€” like â€œStructured Analysis and Designâ€, â€œSoftware Engineeringâ€, â€œMaturity Modelsâ€, â€œManagement Information Systemsâ€, â€œIntegrated Project Support Environmentsâ€ â€œObject Orientationâ€ and â€œBusiness Process Re-engineeringâ€.”
“Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.”
“Me and my shadow Strolling down the avenue Oh, me and my shadow Not a soul to tell our troubles to And when it's twelve o'clock we climb the stairs We never knock 'cause nobody's there Just me and my shadow All alone and feeling blue”
“But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.”
“The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by the pupils will obtain results which one of a more forbidding temperament finds it impossible to secure.”
“Great problems that face the world today in both the private and the public sphere cannot be solved by women â€“ or by men â€“ alone. They can only be surmounted by men and women side by side.”
“I'm not sure if the audience can smell tuna but the special guest each show definitely can.”

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