Ismail Kadare (Ismail Halit Kadare) Quotes
The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.
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If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist rednecks; it's hard for Red America to recognize that many minorities are legitimately worried about what a Trump presidency means for their family.
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I would not drink bottles of water at my mom's house because I never knew how long she'd been refilling them from the sink and putting them back in the refrigerator.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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There are so many misconceptions about me, and it gets frustrating no matter how thick skinned.
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
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I can't run my career based on someone else's ideology.
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Music truly heals, and I am so grateful to have learned that through Musicians on Call.
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I don't ever think a day is a perfect day. There's always something.
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Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
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When I met my wife, my whole life changed on a dime, really quickly and for the better.
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I had kind of a mean piano teacher. I went to Catholic school, so it was like the typical thing you would imagine - a little kid with a white-haired teacher frowning at the fact that I didn't practice.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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Sydney: Imagine the cinematography if Ennis and Jack had been able to live together. Sweeping vistas of their couples therapist's office.
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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
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Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!
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Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.
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The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.
