Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes - Page 7

Today almost everybody is a writer, the enormous publish button on blogs and websites begs you everywhere to click on it! And bam you are a writer. To hell with agents and publishing houses and rejection letters. Immortality for you is on the click of a mouth! We are advancing at the speed of light! You can become an author at 140 characters. To hell with long winding sentences and long hours of scratching the head, the immortals of today instantly get a "like" and they instantly enter the pantheon! They seat side by side Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, St Paul, Buddha, Martin Luther, Rousseau, Bangambiki…
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Writing is self-pleasure
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Writing is all about self-expression, we want to speak up, to get it off our chest. Whether we make an impact or not that is not for us to decide
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If I had time, money and knowledge I could write about everything; but no problem, Google is already doing it
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If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing
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The power of the writer is to capture the thoughts live and present them as they appeared in his mind
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Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better
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Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers
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A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him. He can hear the devil’s defense and god’s accusations. The guards at the king’s heart let him in. The writer can be anything and any one he wants. When he writes he is a god, he creates.
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Writing is sharing. You share what you have. Great writers have more to share
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People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever
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The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It's the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals
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You cannot write if you are not on fire
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How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?
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You cannot write if you are not angry
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If you are afraid of the critics you will never write a word
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You never know what you will write until you write it
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Write it as you see in your own perspective, you may be right or wrong but then what, that's how you see it
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You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology or withdraw your statements
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Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to ourselves
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Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts
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You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things you like to talk about, that's your area of expertise
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. If you want to write, just write anything that comes into your mind. You will be surprised at how you can force inspiration to stand on your side.
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A writer is never alone, he is always with himself
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We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers
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Words disappear in the air, but writing remains. If you want something to be remembered about you, write it down
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I am what I have ever read
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The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths.
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Destiny is not what you become but what you do with it
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A coward: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition and believes he was destined to accept it that way
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We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does
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Whatever we do and are, we are given the means thereof
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How bitter they cry in need, those who refuse to help others in trouble!
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Fate seems to scourge some people with her furies, while it ravishes others with her graces with none having done absolutely nothing to suffer the furies or merit the graces.
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Condition A must be in place for action B to take place
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Never get angry against fate, she is looking for someone to crush, why put a spotlight on yourself?
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We are the products of fate, from beginning to end
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Those who think fate is against them have already crucified themselves. They have already decided what fate should do with them
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Nothing in nature happens voluntarily. Everything is forced to happen. There is a hidden hand that forces things to move.
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We are nothing but bricks from our cultural molds
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You are received the way you present yourself
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If you want to understand the inner workings of the human mind, read good fiction.
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Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies
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If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs
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Words can make or break, use your words carefully
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It's always easy to conquer the hungry with a piece of bread. Only the wise can conquer the strong
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It's not what we can do that makes us great, but what we can do but don't which make us great
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Even if you are not evil, pretend to be. It will put off some abuse
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The hardest thing is a man to truly know himself
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Life is a sweet sour adventure. When you want to go it becomes sweet, when you remain, it becomes sour
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The problem with satisfaction is it's a bottomless pit
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Forget about the great astounding victory. Focus on winning small victories every day, the final victory will come by itself
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You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there
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The greatest wisdom is to be happy
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We are looking for value, guidance, advice, inspiration; for someone to show us the way. When we find him, he is our hero
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True understanding lies beyond the desert
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Keeping hatred against someone is like helping him to torture you
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You are what you believe
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Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it
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A good man can be destroyed by the association with men of evil character. A wise man can learn from them
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