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... la kuvunda halian ubani. There is no incense for something rotting. And that is the condition of the world. This I know. — Giles Foden

When you want something you have never had, you have to do something you have never done. — Paulo Coelho

But the longer a man grows in his own darkness, the more his outer form diminishes
pg 95 — Milan Kundera

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture. — Giles Foden

The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened. — Giles Foden

Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play. — Max Eastman

Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures. — Giles Foden

In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either. — Giles Foden

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people. — Giles Foden

They thought it was an enemy but it was only their own reflection. — Giles Foden

My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border. — Giles Foden

I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters. — Giles Foden

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe. — Giles Foden

Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook. — Giles Foden

An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty. — Giles Foden

From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself. — Giles Foden

The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown. — William Blake

Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so. — George Jones

Failure is the fog through which we glimpse triumph — Anonymous

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting. — Giles Foden

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons — Adrienne Rich

Allow your inner-child out to play! — Lisa Picard

Can you imagine how many people got laid in here? Abby said, walking to the other side of the Jacuzzi. — J.C. Joranco

For the most part our grassroots members are serious, nice, tolerant people. — Francis Maude

Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head. — Giles Foden

What would the world be without him, and those like him? — Janet Morris