#lon

In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#european-novelists #literary-tradition #literature-in-translation #art

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. ↗

— Denise Morrison

#both #business #early #enable #goal

There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#love #lovers #romance #separation #love

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#belongs #calls #delightful #everybody #good

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#democracy #efficient #forms #government #grace

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#colonial #domestically #enough #helpless #history

I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great because I am around people all the time and I need my own space to get away from it all. ↗

— Samantha Mumba

#apartment #around #away #based #because

It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#been #career #i #long #long career

One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it. ↗

— Dale Murphy

#along #anything #being #challenging #cheating

When our heart is closed, it can create a lonely and isolated feeling together with the attitude: "Nobody loves me" or "Nobody cares about me", which can make it hard for other people to love us. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#lonliness #love #attitude