Niall Williams Quotes
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.
Quotes to Explore
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.
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All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
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People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.
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I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.
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What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.
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Stop the traffic...let 'em through.
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The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
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I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night Can be heard humming in the night.
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Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.
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Everybody draws when they are little.
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You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.
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Being at home with my family always inspires me. I find it hard to be inspired when I'm on the move. I'm not creative when I'm jet-lagged and sleeping in strange hotels.
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Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
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The wealthy class often looks down on the poor as "those people." And deprived people view the rich as cold and heartless. The way to break down the barrier between the rich and poor is to asociate with each other and to help one another. Make a connection. If you can break down the barrier, it may pave the way to recovery for some person, a family, maybe an entire community.
