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That's the way life takes us,' Elleke once said. 'It takes us like this, then it turns us over and takes us like that.' What she didn't say was that through it all we manage to cling to something that makes sense.

Abdulrazak Gurnah
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That's the way life takes us,' Elleke once said. 'It takes us like this, then it turns us over and takes us like that.' What she didn't say was that through it all we manage to cling to something that makes sense.

Abdulrazak Gurnah, By the Sea
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I speak to maps. And sometimes they something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard of thing. Before maps, the world was limitless. It was maps that gave it shape and made it seem like territory, like something that could be possessed, not just laid waste and plundered. Maps made places on the edges of the imagination seem graspable and placable.

Abdulrazak Gurnah, By the Sea
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Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses.

Abdulrazak Gurnah, By the Sea
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Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour.

Abdulrazak Gurnah, Paradise
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Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
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Quotes is just quotes, cannot change your world if you not do think in that quotes, so just go and do anything...

Libiyanto Dwi Cahya
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Coming up with a useful, meaningful quote is getting more and more challenging each day....and you can quote me on that.

Bobby Darnell, Time For Dervin - Living Large In Geiggityville
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To me, quotes function as the sunscreen against a writers brilliance. As soon as I cannot stand to look at the magnificence of the acropolis of pure thought the writer managed to doll out in the cognizant chaos - I quote him, and by doing so I am discharged and freed. On the other hand, even while I do acknowledge that some things cannot be quoted, I vehemently distrust any writer whose army of quotes does not consist of impeccable warriors but the sort of bootless canon fodder that caused one to write in the first place, wishing to circumlocute that strappant lot. No writer can ever recover from bad quotes. I check the army of quotes, and if it has no sporting chance against a simple pack of butter then I will simply never ever read this person. One often hears short stories are the benchmark of great writers, but if you ask me, I'd rather first look at their quotes.

Martijn Benders
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Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Groucho Marx
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If all it takes to motivate you is a quote then this quote has nothing to say – except to go soar with the freakin’ eagles.

Ryan Lilly
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