Nuruddin Farah Quotes
There are moments in one's life when everything one considers to be a win is for all practical purposes a loss.
Nuruddin Farah
Quotes to Explore
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
Nancy Gibbs
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In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
G. Willow Wilson
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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
Oscar Wilde
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It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.
Zach LaVine
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I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.
Fran Drescher
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I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
Patrick Marber
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The podcast 'Note to Self' is 'the tech show about being human'. Human notions of privacy have changed.
David Hepworth
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I am interested in the ordinary sort of threat. I know that people are interested in things like serial killers and what have you, but actually, those aren't the sort of crimes that really happen very much. The sort of crimes that happen tend to be more of a domestic nature and quite banal, but the psychology behind them is always fascinating.
Paula Hawkins
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It feels good when you learn to move on in life.
Divyanka Tripathi
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The religious stories, the religious truths, the spiritual principles - obviously, they don't change. But as you get older and you experience more, you recognize the applicability, the profundity, and the fundamental truths of spiritual principles in ways that you couldn't when you simply were living a less dimensional life.
Marianne Williamson
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Once we accept the fact of loss, we understand that the loved one obstructed a whole corner of the possible, pure now as a sky washed by rain.
George Howe Colt
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There are moments in one's life when everything one considers to be a win is for all practical purposes a loss.
Nuruddin Farah
