Elspeth Huxley Quotes
Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds.
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.
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I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.
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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
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The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.
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I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.
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Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.
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Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each sin has a path that leads to unbelief. Unless that sin is swiftly obliterated by seeking God's forgiveness, it grows from a worm into a snake that gnaws at the heart.
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Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
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You must have heard about the beautiful Sufi legend of Majnu and Laila. It is not an ordinary love story. The word majnu means mad, mad for God. And laila is the symbol of God. Sufis think of God as the beloved; laila means the beloved. Everybody is a Majnu, and God is the beloved. And one has to open one’s heart, the eye of the heart.
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Fame and fortune is a magnet.It can pull you far away from homeWith a dream in your heart you're never alone.Dreams turn into dust and blow awayAnd there you are without a friend
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Moonlight on canvas, midnight and wine,Two shadows starting to softly combine.The picture they're paintingIs one of the heart;And to those who have seen it,It's a true work of art.Oh, the red strokes,Passions uncaged;Thundering moments of tenderness rage.Oh, the red strokes,Tempered and strong (Fearlessly drawn),Burning the night like the dawn.
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A scholar ... should turn his ears from the talk of the illiterate and not take it to heart.
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We may deny the existence of ethnonationalism, detest it, condemn it. But this creator and destroyer of empires and nations is a force infinitely more powerful than globalism, for it engages the heart. Men will die for it. Religion, race, culture and tribe are the four horsemen of the coming apocalypse.
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And, ev'n while fashion's brightest arts decoy,The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.
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If you stay in your heart you will always be inspired and if you are inspired you will always be enthusiastic. There is nothing more contagious on this planet as enthusiasm.
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Look carefully into the faces of the people participating. What you will see, for the most part, are dirty, unshaven, often crude young men and stringy-haired awkward young women who cannot attract attention any other way.
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I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.
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Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.
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I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.
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Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds.
