"Death knocks at your door, and before you can tell him to come in, he is in the house with you."

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Source : Grace Ogot (1988). “Land Without Thunder”, p.45, East African Publishers

Grace Ogot

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“I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.”

Source : "Housman 1897-1936". Book by Grant Richards, p. 100, 1942.
“Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.”
“I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I have developed skills I did not think were possible - bathing with a cup of water by candlelight, for instance, and writing a story with a headlamp on.”
“Who is that?â€ â€œYour replacement.â€ â€œYou replaced me with a shaved poodle?â€ â€œHe's got mad skills.”
“No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.”

Source : Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.49, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.”
“It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It legitimated the breaking of the remaining opposition to the commodification of everything, and it tended to wipe away all the negatives of capitalism on the grounds that the benefits outweighed, by far, the harm.”
“Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.”

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