Africanized Quotes

#1. A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were survived by their culture, which was constantly re-Africanized by fresh arrivals. To that plantation culture, the music of our hemisphere owes no small debt.

Ned Sublette

#2. I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out.

Shannon Hale

#3. While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.

Dalai Lama

#4. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

Truman Capote

#5. The first one is always the hardest.

Cassandra Clare

#6. Just for the sake of amusement, ask each passenger to tell you his story, and if you find a single one who hasn't often cursed his life, who hasn't told himself he's the most miserable man in the world, you can throw me overboard head first.

Voltaire

#7. Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. Mr. Arnold Bennett feels he has ranked himself for ever as a dry wine by what he mixed with himself of Maupassant; nevertheless he has put on the market some grocer's Sauterne in the form of several novels that are highly sentimental so far as their fundamental balance of values is concerned.

Rebecca West

#9. No one cares about the art of the lie at this point. They insist on impressing with the truth. See me! Look at me! Look at who I am! Look at who I want you to think I am!

Leslie Pietrzyk

#10. You have a lot more freedom to explore and improvise in a Canadian film, which you might not have when there's 13 different production companies that all have serious equity investments.

Kristen Hager

#11. It is not the novelist's job to preach; it is his duty to show.

Anthony Burgess