Shqiprim Shala Quotes & Sayings

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think. — Mohsin Hamid

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. — Noam Chomsky

It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard. — Neil Gaiman

Mostly, we talk to impress. And sometimes we shut up to impress, too. — Nema Al-Araby

Some people look at a picture for thirty seconds, some for years. It doesn't really matter because a picture is like life. You take out of life as much as you are able to take out of life, just as you take out of a picture as much as you can take out of a picture ... — Oliviero Toscani

And if those children are unresponsive, maybe you can't teach them yet, but you can love them. And if you love them today, maybe you can teach them tomorrow. — Jeffrey R. Holland

To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient. Always, every time of the month, forever: Use birth control. — Chuck Palahniuk

He could say nothing. He had no right to be there, he had already been profoundly changed, he was no good at small talk, she was half naked, it was dawn and he loved her. — Mark Helprin

Transcendence of sex is a totally different phenomenon from the suppression of it. But suppression can give you the feeling that you have transcended. — Rajneesh

I have lately returned from Harpers Ferry, to which place I was suddenly called, on the 17th instant, by causes the most disturbing and destructive to the peace and safety of this State. — Henry A. Wise