Duzeru Quotes & Sayings

What most enraptured me were the asparagus. — Marcel Proust

Some books leave us free and some books make us free. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels. — Archer John Porter Martin

Important encounters are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other — Paulo Coelho

All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost. — James Frey

To be alive today is to have a story to tell. To be alive is precisely to be the hero, the center of a life story. When you can be nothing more than a minor character in somebody else's tale, it means that you are truly dead. — Daniel Mendelsohn

Chip recons that he is charming as hell, and who am I to poke holes in his theory. That means that sometimes lies leave his mouth dressed like truth. He just can't help it. — Esi Edugyan

The triumph of human identity and worth over the pathology of human destruction glows virtually everywhere in Levi's writing. — Primo Levi

Worth remembering the world was never how she anxiously dreamed it. — Ian McEwan

What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us. — Fred W. Friendly

Liberalism's fatal flaw, ... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like a hot new idea to liberals, but soon goes to irksome and destructive extremes. — Joseph Sobran