"I'm happy if my book makes you want to kiss your family... if we can reconcile with each other no matter where we are on the globe."

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Uwem Akpan

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“Some people have called me arrogant or believe that is my reputation, which is far from what I really am like.”
“I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.”
“If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not be anything but zero. To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be. These supposed mysteries have rendered the calculus of the infinitely small quite suspect to many people. Those doubts that remain we shall thoroughly remove in the following pages, where we shall explain this calculus.”
“Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.”

Source : Georges Didi-Huberman (2008). “Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz”, p.23, University of Chicago Press
“Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.”

Source : Susan Sontag (1978). “On photography”, Delta
“I am as wrapped up in her as a vine that clings to a tree seeking for sustenance. She's tied me to her for eternity. She's my home. She's my reason for being. To win and hold her heart is my only purpose.”
“I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front line of law enforcement. I still have a cadre of cops who keep me up to date, but I don't have the access I used to.”
“If love never lasts forever, then what's forever for?”

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