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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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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When I met my wife, my whole life changed on a dime, really quickly and for the better.
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Crime is the biggest genre in libraries and in bookshops, and it is hugely varied.
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It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
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I didn't realize until I was doing commentary what a gladiator-like competition tennis is - other than no one dies. The crowd is waiting for the players to come, and they walk through the tunnel, and they get on the court, and they get out their rackets, their weapons, and now they start.
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If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that.
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Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.
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Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.
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I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.
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If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.
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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.
