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There was a positive side to not trying at something: you could always pretend that your life would have been different if you had. — Chris Abani

But the thing is that, in the end, we each must decide how comfortable we are with how much we hurt other people — Chris Abani

Elvis, stop dat! You know it is taboo to whistle at night. You will attract a spirit. — Chris Abani

The sense of being two men - one bent on desperate measures, the other already in the numb of mourning - felt like the last weeks of his marriage. — James S.A. Corey

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself. — Chris Abani

Be grateful for the tiny details of your life and make room for unexpected and beautiful blessings. — Henry Van Dyke

I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience. — Chris Abani

The wind is calling in a voice I remember — Chris Abani

People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes — Chris Abani

As with much of the world's problems, they become public
or much more of interest
the moment they begin to impact the West. — Chris Abani

Sometimes it is enough to know that it is difficult. — Chris Abani

Before you speak, my friend, remember, a spiritual man contain his anger. Angry words are like slap in de face. — Chris Abani

[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else. — Rebecca Solnit

He too, it seemed, had come to believe that he could somehow escape history. That it was possible, and even desirable, to live in a perpetual present. — Chris Abani

Story is powerful. Story is fluid and it belongs to nobody. — Chris Abani

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot. — Chris Abani

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are. — Chris Abani

She who had been taken and taken and taken. And now the one time she took for herself, the one time she had choice in the matter, it was taken away. — Chris Abani

Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring! — Ruben Dario

I was raised to fight to the end. You never give up, no matter how much it hurts, no matter what stands in your way. — Jonathan Maberry

There had been many such experiments when he worked in South Africa, in Vlakplaas, a notorious apartheid death camp. — Chris Abani

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it. — Susan Rice

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things. — Chris Abani

My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s. — Chris Abani

He grasped a bag of zip ties from the shelf. — Elisabeth Naughton

If I don't get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh. — Chris Abani

This is the prevalence of ritual. To remember something that cannot be forgotten. — Chris Abani

Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing? — Chris Abani

I don't listen to anybody but Boosie. — Lil Boosie

It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship. — Chris Abani

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits. — Francis Bacon

... but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human. — John Irving

Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different. — Chris Abani

Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning. — David M. Shoup

Passion without purpose is like a shot without a target. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression
how long before the pot boiled over. — Chris Abani

as his mother told Grandma Marie, there are no words for some — Chris Abani

Anything a man can do, I can fix. — Chris Abani

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is. — Chris Abani