"For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing."

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Alejandro Zambra

#Writing Quotes #Way Quotes #Findings Quotes

“Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's love so wishes our joy that it is ruthless against everything in us that diminishes our joy. The worst sentence Love can pass is that we behold the suffering which Love has endured for our sake, and that is also our acquittal. The justice and mercy of the judge are ultimately one.”
“We see Facebook as an advertising platform. We see Ello as a social network.”
“Want to Think Big? Then get rid of the negative influences in your life. Harsh? Possibly. Healthy? Yes.”
“Some of your best songs come from a desperate attempt to escape, so sitting in an airport for hours I can just start pulling out little fragments of songs from my head. A lot of times a melody will just occur to me and be my companion for a couple of months.”
“In your hands you hold the seeds of failure or the potential for greatness. Your hands are capable, but they must be used and for the right things to reap the rewards you are capable of attaining. The choice is yours.”
“Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?”
“The anxiety was like poison ivy. It took nothing to set off that mental itch-a chance remark, remembering an event from the day before-but once it started I found it impossible to stop the cycle. My thoughts twisted in a circle, my pulse hammered, I couldn't concentrate.”
“I think my track record speaks for myself... I have been endorsed by the African Union, but I am a prosecutor for 121 states parties and this is what I intend to be until the end of my mandate.”

Source : "Fatou Bensouda: the woman who could redeem the international criminal court" by Afua Hirsch, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2012.

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