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Hooman Majd Quotes

A popular bumper sticker post-9/11, and pretty faded these days, proclaims drivers of the cars to be 'Proud to be an American.' It really should say 'Lucky to be an American,' for I doubt very much that the drivers had much say in having been born here, and are not old enough to have participated in the drafting of the Constitution.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: iranian
Birth: 1957

Topics

Constitution Proud American Enough

I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think that having actual parents who lived through the Cultural Revolution who are also interested in literature, they're also very attuned to those moments.

Parents Revolution Think Moments You

Being infamous is not fun. It becomes a weird occupation in and of itself.

Fun Weird Being Infamous Occupation

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

Car Understanding Nothing Cognitive

I've won the world title - what I've dreamt of since the age of eight.

Age World Eight Title Won Since

I'm incredibly articulate, thoughtful and moral, and I think about what I do. I want to be known for doing something good.

Good Think Doing Thoughtful Moral

I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.

Tracy Chevalier

Family Child Green Writing Thought

The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.

History Time Competition World New

No Child Left Behind widens the gap between the races more than any piece of educational legislation I've seen in 40 years. It denies inner-city kids the critical-thinking skills to interrogate reality.

Child Reality Skills More Years

I was haunted by a bear attack that happened in Algonquin Park in 1991. The problem was that I don't believe in ghosts, so that ruled out an exorcism. My other choice was to start writing.

Writing Start Believe Problem Choice

Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.

Culture Government Two Forces Blinds

I always have loved witches.

Loved Always Witches

I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.

Scarlett Thomas

Good Me Reading Think End You

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