"It occurred to me that I was unhappy. And it didnâ€™t feel so very terrible. No urgency, nothing. I could slip out of my life on a slow wave like thisâ€”it didnâ€™t matter. I donâ€™t have to be happy. All I have to do is hold on to something and wait."

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Source : Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

Helen Oyeyemi

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“Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate. Now, the garden should be the main drag for main courses.”
“I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your bank account, whatever is going on in your life on the professional side.”

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“Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love.”
“Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.”

Source : "The Liberty Song" (song) (1768). "United we stand, divided we fall!" became a slogan of the American Revolution.
“And once I knew a meditative rose That never raised its head from bowing down, Yet drew its inspiration from the stars. It bloomed and faded here beside the road, And, being a poet, wrote on empty air With fragrance all the beauty of its soul.”
“Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study it, and learn the art, and exercise patience and sympathy and skill to bring the multitude of opinions and wishes of self-governing people into such order that some prevailing opinion may be expressed and peaceably accepted. Otherwise, confusion will result either in dictatorship or anarchy. The principal ground of reproach against any American citizen should be that he is not a politician. Everyone ought to be, as Lincoln was.”

Source : "Men and Policies: Addresses". Book by Elihu Root, ed. Robert Bacon and James B. Scott, p. 75, "Lincoln as a Leader of Men", 1924.
“We should enjoy and make the most of life, not because we are in constant fear of what might happen to us in a mythical afterlife, but because we have only one opportunity to live.”
“All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.”

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