Romesh Gunesekera Quotes

Whether it is better to forget and let wounds heal or remember and learn from the past is a crucial question for all of us, wherever we are.

Romesh Gunesekera

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
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  • Birth: 1954

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PastBetterLearnRememberForget

Almost everyone who's been to primary school in Britain has had towels put on their heads to play the shepherds in the nativity play.

Jim Crace

SchoolPlayEveryoneBeenAlmost

Think of all the mesquite in Texas, the pinyon pines, the acorns in Appalachia, every place has the possibility of mass production. It's an infrastructural system so nestled in ecology, it's a more beautiful ecology.

Joel Salatin

BeautifulTexasThinkPlaceMore

I just think a big smile and feeling confident makes you beautiful.

Maye Musk

SmileBeautifulThinkConfidentYou

Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that.

Matt Smith

KidEatUsedBehindSignificance

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

Andy Goldsworthy

PurposeAcceptProjectSomething

She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on.

Michael Ende

FearDayPastMove OnImportantShe

One of the most inexplicable characteristics of the Germans is their love of kitsch.

Rory MacLean

LoveCharacteristicsMostGermans

The creative process for me doesn't work as well without an image of an audience in mind.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

WorkCreativeMindMeProcessImage

I was in a fever to get out from behind the plate. Oh boy, I was terrible back there.

Mickey Cochrane

BackBoyOutFeverGetTerrible

I read almost no romantic fiction, in part because I barely believe in romance in the age of Tinder.

Michelle Dean

AgeRomanticBelieveRomanceFiction

We need the whole squad, every player of the team, if we are to be successful.

Pep Guardiola

TeamSquadNeedSuccessfulWhole

The entire issue is that women bear a disproportionate share of the hard work. Birthing, carrying, the whole thing - it's hard work.

Pete Sessions

WorkHard WorkWomenBearHard

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