Top 26 Mia Couto Quotes

#1. On one occasion, someone asked a famous American musician, Ben Harper, this question: "We've heard you now have a new drummer in your band. Tell me something: is he black?" And Harper replied: "I don't know, I've never asked him.

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#2. Every morning the gazelle wakes up knowing she must run faster than the lion or will be dead. Every morning the lion wakes up knowing he must run faster than the gazelle or he'll starve. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun rises you better start to run.

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#3. No human difference matters much until it becomes a privilege, until it becomes the basis for oppression. Power is the vector that turns minor into major.

Michael Ignatieff

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#4. After us, there was no more world to receive anyone.

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#5. Too bad for Dallyn she'd been cast to look good in a leather bathing suit, not for her muscles. Size mattered. Jane hit her again and the impact sent the smaller woman flying backwards into the river.

Cassandra Gannon

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#6. Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness,

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#7. Ethics are determined by what they catch you doing. If you don't get caught, then you haven't violated any ethics.

John Grisham

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#8. Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

Patricia Wentworth

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#9. -Back there our sun doesn't speak.
-Where's "there," Miss Marta?
-Back there, in Europe. Here, it's different. Here, the sun moans, whispers, shouts.
-Surely-I commented delicately-the sun is always the same.
- You're wrong. There, the sun is a stone. Here it's a fruit.

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#10. And that is what a writer is - a traveller between identities, a smuggler of souls.

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#11. Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.

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#12. Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.

Muriel Barbery

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#13. There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!
-Harry Wormwood

Roald Dahl

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#14. Or she could command him to repeatedly stab himself in the dick. Then she'd run away as fast as she could manage - seeing as she would be laughing really hard.

Kresley Cole

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#15. I don't think about going back to the theater.

Angela Lansbury

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#16. Sometimes it's the toughest moments that you learn the most about yourself, and the more you know yourself, the less you are willing to give away.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

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#17. I'm trapped inside of me and I don't go out at all. I go to bed at eight o'clock at night. I never go out during the week. I'm in psychotherapy four days a week, pretty heavy commitment to it.

Howard Stern

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#18. We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

Henry Giroux

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#19. Life is lived on its ownother's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral.

Bhagat Singh

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#20. In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.

Joseph Joubert

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#21. A Mercedes or a BMW can't make full use of its lustre, as it busily swerves to avoid the very convex buses along very concave roads. The existence of good roads would depend upon another type of wealth. A wealth that might serve the city.

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#22. 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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#23. He who seeks eternity should look at the sky, he who seeks the moment, should look at the cloud.

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#24. Life's incredibly boring. I don't say that in an effort to seem vaguely amusing but the secret of life is that there's no secret, it's just exceedingly boring.

Morrissey

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#25. Love is a territory where orders can't be issued.

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#26. 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.

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