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There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst. — Thomas Mann

What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that. — Aminatta Forna

We became friends, I suppose, because we lived close to each other and it suited us and because when you are young friendships go unquestioned. — Aminatta Forna

Made a lot of changes
But not forgetting who i was — One Direction

When you do nothing, what do your children inherit? They inherit, nothing. — Aminatta Forna

Courage is not what it took to survive. Quite the opposite! You had to be a coward to survive. — Aminatta Forna

Yet what use against the deceit of a state are the memories of a child? — Aminatta Forna

No other single influence has had so great an impact on this earth as the life of Jesus the Christ. — Ezra Taft Benson

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained. — Aminatta Forna

There's nothing new about this story of ours, such things happen. Love misses its mark, arrives too early or too late. Nobody dies, except in novels. — Aminatta Forna

I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted. — Aminatta Forna

My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody. — Aminatta Forna

I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way. — Patrick DeWitt

But what is a legend if not a story so great it has survived the retelling of countless generations? — Aminatta Forna

But he's nice," Barby objected.

Tom Bishop smiled without humor. "Most pleasant and interesting man I ever knew was a burglar. — John Blaine

Oh I don't need an education Just a microphone's intoxication And I can't deal with concentration Give me tongues and stimulation — Katy Rose

Whenever he was asked what somebody had died of he'd reply (with immense gravity), Lack of breath. — Aminatta Forna

its better to love and lost then to not loved at all. — SomeoneLovesYou

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors. — Robert Delaunay

People said it was a song about drugs, but John Lennon said the name came from a picture his son painted of a girl at school. — Aminatta Forna

There's something uncomfortable about looking at pictures of your parents at a time when they made each other happy. — Aminatta Forna

Adrian hears the echo of his own thoughts of earlier in the day, only differently stated. The silent lie. — Aminatta Forna

I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths. — Aminatta Forna

I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing. — Aminatta Forna

I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it. — Aminatta Forna

Radio is powerful not because of the microphones, but the one who sits behind the microphones — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A dread filled me, a dread unlike any I had ever felt. Not the terror of God, or his angels, but the sickly fear of man. — Aminatta Forna

All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth. — Aminatta Forna

What the best novels and novelists do is to offer a different way of seeing. — Aminatta Forna

Hell is full of good wishes or desires. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

We are so used to the elephant in the room that sometimes we forget it is there — Aminatta Forna

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly. — Aminatta Forna

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative. — Aminatta Forna

I learned about women -- how we are made into the women we've become, how we shape ourselves, how we shape each other. — Aminatta Forna

A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas. — Aminatta Forna

I'm a doctor's daughter. I'm not squeamish at all. — Aminatta Forna

My desire is to be as independent as I can be, as long as I can be, subject to being effective. — Angus King

Look, I am living. On what? Neither the childhood nor future/ grows any smaller ... Superabundant being/ wells up in my heart. — Audrey Niffenegger

My family's a ruling family. — Aminatta Forna

All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine — Sean Penn

A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission. — Aminatta Forna

Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas
a whole grammar made of light, for words to hard to speak. — Jodi Picoult

If you want to know a country, read its writers. — Aminatta Forna