"Books were always important. I have to thank my father, he filled my life with books. He didn't write but he always read. He was a merchant, he filled the store with cigarette smoke and his friends, all talking about books and politics. It was bad for business. He dealt in women's clothing."

-- Rawi Hage

#Father Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.”
“I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.”
“Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.”
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
“Whenever you make a promise, you have a responsibility to that promise.”
“We can transform reality to the extent that we influence what happens in consciousness and thus free ourselves from the threats and blandishments of the outside world.”
“My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.”
“Don't fear the nighttime, cause the monsters know that you're divine. Don't fear the sunshine, cause everything's better in the summertime”

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