"You must take a year off, one of these days, before youâ€™re old and tired and weighed down by responsibility. Go away somewhere, and read. Read all the important books. Educate yourself, then youâ€™ll see the world in a different way."

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Source : Helon Habila (2010). “Oil on Water”, p.181, Penguin UK

Helon Habila

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“I think if you come straight on honest as much as you can, eventually that turns into success. Maybe not as quick as you'd like.”
“The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isnt it?”
“The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence, but the awareness that my that my existence itself is not in the center. Once I 'know' God, that is, once I experience God's love as the love in which all my human experiences are anchored, I can desire only one thing: to be in that love.”
“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.”
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
“You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy”
“This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.”
“It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle”

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