Mia Couto quotes
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“Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for a befitting mind.”
-- Mia CoutoSource : Mia Couto, David Brookshaw (2006). “Sleepwalking Land”, p.39, Profile Books
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“Love is a territory where orders can't be issued.”
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“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
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“He who seeks eternity should look at the sky, he who seeks the moment, should look at the cloud.”
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“I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears.”
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“Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness,”
-- Mia CoutoSource : "Neustadt Prize Winner Reflects On The Civil War That Shaped Him". Interview with Sarah Hurd and Suzette Grillot, kgou.org. November 14, 2014.
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