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Hisham Matar Quotes

My earliest memory of books is not of reading but of being read to. I spent hours listening, watching the face of the person reading aloud to me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1970

Topics

Memory Me Listening Reading Face

The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.

John Cassavetes

Love Imagination World Place Come

Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

Good Courage Simple Be Strong People

We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.

Technology Balance Spiritual Learn

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

Little Girls Kind Vampire Dancers

The pleasure of reading a story and wondering what will come next for the hero is a pleasure that has lasted for centuries and, I think, will always be with us.

Hero Reading Story Think Will Next

I am staunchly committed to ensuring the long-term solvency of Social Security and preserving full benefits for Americans who have spent their entire working lives contributing to this program.

I Am Security Long-Term Working Who

I have to make sure I stay focused and have the same ambition I've always had and work hard - that's the key to success.

Work Success Stay Focused Work Hard

I'm selling a product, and I have to be out there; I don't have the option not to be.

Selling Product Out Option

I'm just thankful I'm surrounded by good people.

Good Thankful People Good People

Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.

Me Literature She Revival Excuse

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness Pain Boredom Human Enemies

The night that George Zimmerman was acquitted, I think, for black people all over the world, there was a collective feeling of incredible grief and incredible rage. And that verdict not only let George Zimmerman go home to his family, but it sent a message to black people everywhere that our lives did not matter.

Family Home Grief People World Go

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