"I read "The Conquest of New Spain" by Bernal Diz Del Castillo, which I recommend to a lot of people. He was an eyewitness of [Hernando] Cortez's conquest of Mexico. It's at once very brutal and at times very plodding. It tells what they did everyday, so days can go by and nothing happens. Then all of the sudden they are torturing and doing all these dark things."

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Source : Source: www.bostonglobe.com

Laila Lalami

#Dark Quotes #People Quotes #Everyday Quotes

“Over the years, I developed a theory about why writers are such procrastinators: We were too good in English class. This sounds crazy, but hear me out.”

Source : Megan McArdle (2014). “The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success”, p.11, Penguin
“Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.”
“I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.”
“The best band in the world is Queen, definitely.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We will continue to offer the most dynamic vehicles in the future. However, we have also made it our mission to be sustainable as a company.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“When art find no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.”
“If we could switch off the aging gene we would. There's no technology that we've had that we haven't used. We are in the capital of staying young forever.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.”

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