Mwanza Quotes

#1. Twenty-two years eight months and four days from that moment, a promising young Alpha- Minus administrator at Mwanza-Mwanza was to die of trypanosomiasis - the first case for over half a century. Sighing, Lenina went on with her work.

Aldous Huxley

#2. Getting snail mail is one of my favorite indulgences, and I think receiving mail is actually a common joy.

Mary Lambert

#3. My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.

Wilbur Smith

#4. ...and lovers of romance novels and dissident rebels and brothers in Christ and druids and shamans and aphrodisiac vendors and scriveners and purveyors of real fake passports and gun-runners and porters and bric-a-brac trades and mining prospectors short on liquid assets and Siamese twins...

Fiston Mwanza Mujila

#5. Poverty is hereditary just like power, stupidity, and haemorrhoids.

Fiston Mwanza Mujila

#6. Watercress. Jesus. He knew every gun that had ever been manufactured. Every hold in every martial art. This was beyond him. What the fuck was watercress?

Lisa Marie Rice

#7. My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.

Nick Cave

#8. During the cold war, it was easy for the Pentagon to justify its budget, as the Soviets essentially sized our forces for us. We simply counted up their stuff and either bought more of the same or upgraded our technology.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#9. I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.

Edvard Munch

#10. I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if it's something that really annoys me, I fixate on it, learn something about it and then, when I'm onstage, it comes out.

Reggie Watts

#11. He hiccupped and continued: "I write therefore I come...But unfortunately, my orgies are never eternal!...

Fiston Mwanza Mujila

#12. When Malingeau drew himself from his long sleep, the music was still droning in his head. Christelle was already gone. She had taken care to scribble a line on a scrap of paper.
"I drank your body until my thirst was worn.

Fiston Mwanza Mujila

#13. Nicole had put on weight. This is the effect which, in three cases out of four, unhappiness has upon women. The process of eating guarantees at least the health of the body.

Francoise Sagan

#14. He had a goatee that was maybe growing into something that was more than a goatee, which made him look like an angry barista at an indie coffee shop whose dreams of becoming a successful screenwriter were dwindling by the hour.

Lev Grossman

#15. I really wasn't needed ... Just straightening up riffs, that's all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.

Jimmy Page

#16. Yet torture is above all an art, an artistic discipline just like literature , cinema, or contemporary dance. All detained in the City-State ghettos bitterly missed the torturers of yesteryears, those monsters who worked with the precision of a Swiss watch-maker.

Fiston Mwanza Mujila

#17. Each one comes to their own understanding and recognition of truth in their own time, not in yours.

T.F. Hodge

#18. Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics.

Eric Baum