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Ismail Kadare Quotes

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: albanian
Birth: January 28, 1936

Topics

Life Time Thought Long Play Leaving

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

Good Fear Time Responsibility Space

The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. In order to do this, they had to forget, or pretend to forget, all they had previously known abut the Africans.

John Henrik Clarke

People World Information Forget Only

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

Name Perfect More Monk Fit Than

I was put in White City children's home when I was 15.

Amanda de Cadenet

Home Children City White Put

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

Shirley Chisholm

Profit Morality Up Against Seldom

We certainly should support both parties having observers at the polling stations to make sure that neither side does anything that allowed a fraudulent vote. That's a very healthy check on the process.

Support Process Healthy Vote Side

You shouldn't turn on C-SPAN to get your sports update.

Sports You Turn Get Your Update

Jean Paul Gaultier is not only immensely talented but also a genuinely sweet and kind person.

Sweet Person Kind Only Talented

If you ask anyone around the cricket grounds, they will say I always sign loads of autographs and thank the ladies for lunch and try to behave in the right way.

Lunch Cricket You Say Way Try

I have a lot of other stuff to accomplish before I get to kids. Whenever the time is right, I'll just know. If I had a girl, she'd probably be really rebellious. She would be like a bundle of karma. I would love to bring them up in Barbados.

Love Girl Time Karma Accomplish She

People in China say: 'If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your children, also send them to New York.'

Love Children Hate New York People

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

Klas Pontus Arnoldson

Freedom Peace War Slavery Without

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