"If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos."

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Diana Abu-Jaber

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.”
“In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.”
“The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person leaves vivid memories; one spent with interesting people has merely a sort of bouquet.”
“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.”
“He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.”
“And one has eaten and one walks, past the magazines with nudes and the posters for bullfight and the Manhattan Storage Warehouse, which they'll soon tear down.”
“I have to be sure of myself - in a conditional way, always being open to the possibility that I'm wrong.”
“Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.”

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