Valeria Luiselli quotes
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“I can always, quite easily, put myself in other people's shoes, so to speak, and look at the world through them.”
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“I learned to keep at a certain distance from things - and to make myself a little bit invisible while I observed and understood them.”
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“I like reading the world through a writer's eyes, rather than seeing a writer looking at him or herself as if at the center of gravity of the world around them.”
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“Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor can be inverted. The journeys we make during the reading of a book trace out, in some way, the private spaces we inhabit. There are texts that will always be our dead-end streets; fragments that will be bridges; words that will be like the scaffolding that protects fragile constructions.”
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“Writers tend to think they occupy a much more relevant place in society than we actually do. But we really are closer to buffoons and jesters than we are to whistle-blowers or moral guides. Accepting our rather insignificant place in society can be depressing - but it's also freeing.”
-- Valeria Luiselli
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“A divided heart loses both worlds.”
Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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“Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.”
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“If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih.”
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“Speak the language of the person you want to become.”
Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.93, Simon and Schuster
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“I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.”
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