Russom Tesfai Quotes & Sayings

I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life. — Fernando Pessoa

He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized. — F Scott Fitzgerald

How easy it is to tell tales! — Denis Diderot

I knew Faulkner very well. He was a great friend of mine. Well, as much as you could be a friend of his, unless you were a fourteen-year-old nymphet. Then you could be a great friend! — Truman Capote

I don't look at myself on the outside. Sometimes you feel like you're not really there and need one more [take], because I feel like something is coming out. I don't really know what but I need to get it out. — Noomi Rapace

Ever notice that drunk people are, like, the worst whisperers ever? — Cindi Madsen

It's the form it takes when it comes out the other side, of course, that gives a story something unique
its life. The story, in the way it has arrived at what it is on the page, has been something learned, by dint of the story's challenge and the work that rises to meet it
a process as uncharted for the writer as if it had never been attempted before. — Eudora Welty

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip. — Bill Griffith

We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before. — Herbert Hoover

Do you want me to ride you like a rented mule, or do you prefer to be Mr. Missionary Position? I'm fine with wither, so it doesn't matter to me. — Katie MacAlister

Maybe that's why I felt sad and empty - because I'd missed him all my life. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Then I wondered if everybody has that person that haunts them, the one that got away. — Marlon James

Welcome to Israel, where the beaches are great, the fruit is succulent, the landscape is mesmerizing, and all of it is stolen. — Remi Kanazi

If your pride leads you to boast,
you will be doubly guilty,
because your intelligence will have shown
that it is incapable of controlling your pride. — Ibn Hazm