"I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months."

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Source : "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#Independence Quotes #Months Quotes #Three Quotes

“The fall takes no time and forever.”

Source : Courtney Summers (2013). “What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are”, p.29, Macmillan
“God's Word really carries me every day.”
“This is my year of the remake. Go for it, see what you can do, guys, why not?”
“I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.”
“Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.”

Source : William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.6, Harper Collins
“I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.”
“Lawyers love paper. They eat, sleep and dream paper. They turn paper into gold, and their files are colorful and their language neoclassical and calli-graphically bewigged.”

Source : Karl Jay Shapiro, Richard O'Barry (1990). “Poet: An Autobiography in Three Parts”
“No peace will arrive unless the U.S. or Pakistan want it.”

Source : "Afghanistan's Karzai criticises U.S., Pakistan in farewell speech". www.reuters.com. September 23, 2014.

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