Elias Khoury Quotes

#1. Memory,' wrote the Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury, is a process of organizing what to forget.

Ben Ehrenreich

#2. They were not brave enough to accept her as she came.
She made her own path where she found herself,
she followed it to her own people.

Tina J. Richardson

#3. I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

Diane Lane

#4. The body she inhabited during the day was not hers but rather a reflection from other people's eyes.

Elias Khoury

#5. The locus of Francis's "mysticism," his belief that he could have direct contact with God, was in the Mass, not in nature or even in service to the poor.

Augustine Thompson

#6. If there had once been a chance and there had once been love, then it will still be there in spite of time and obstacles. If you can get past that, you can get past a lot.

Donna Lynn Hope

#7. Cards! Me sit down to whist with you! Is it consistent? Who is responsible for it? Who has shattered my energies and turned them to whist? Ah, perish, Russia!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you.

Bob Marley

#9. But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.

Michael Morpurgo

#10. I like working among 'creative clutter'. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement.

Fennel Hudson

#11. I'd be okay with that kind of trouble, Amber said, as a pair of flannel-clad farm boys headed toward them.

Laura Ruby

#12. Her eyes downcast all the while/ and singing to herself
pg. 18// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#13. The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

Mahalia Jackson

#14. After all, as the old Scot saying went, there wasn't much guile in a heart that was singing.

Jill Barnett

#15. Upon the civilization of the world. The best one can do is to estimate, as intelligently as possible, the national characteristics of the peoples engaged,

Lafcadio Hearn