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Allison Heavens
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“You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults," he said to her. "Love has no place for idealization.”
― The Seeker: A Novel
― The Seeker: A Novel
“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
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“It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entrust oneself to someone who knows not that he knows not. Has a man ever learnt swimming by tying a stone to his neck? So let me go my own way even if it is the wrong one.”
― The Seeker: A Novel
― The Seeker: A Novel
“People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.”
― There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
― There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
“Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far too common for a discussion of art. Why should art have a purpose and a use? Art shouldn't be concerned with purpose and reason and need, they say. These are improper. But from the very beginning, it seems to me, stories have indeed been meant to be enjoyed, to appeal to that part of us which enjoys good form and good shape and good sound.”
― There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
― There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
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