Ok, you folks are really good at figuring out the quotations I've been putting into the blog, so here's a more difficult one: "It is only the story . . . that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence."
I'll give you 2 hints.
1. It's by an African writer--a really amazing one
2. I used the quote as an epigraph in one of my novels
Feel free to challenge me with your favorite quotations!
I'll give you 2 hints.
1. It's by an African writer--a really amazing one
2. I used the quote as an epigraph in one of my novels
Feel free to challenge me with your favorite quotations!
Here are 3 quotes. Can you guess where they are from?
"Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try."
"I am not young enough to know everything."
"...He believes it to be so. Isn´t that what truth is? The force of a person´s believing seeps into those around him into the very earth and air and water - until there´s nothing else."
Isn't it by Chinua Achebe? From Anthills of the Savannah? I am not completely sure since I read it a while back for a course.
Ok...guess this one:
"Never again will a single story be told as though it's the only one"
Sanchari is right! I used it as an epigraph in Sister of My Heart.
Great quotes, Karen. I know them--but I want to give others a chance to guess. So I'll add some hints
1 is a character in a popular science fiction movie
2 is a British writer who was jailed for being gay
3 is from my novel Palace of Illusions (smile)
Ok readers, can you guess these now?
@ Karen
1. Star Wars
2. Oscar Wilde
3. Palace of Illusions
Vaibhav is right! But who says it in Star Wars? And who says it in Palace of Illusions?
#1 is Yoda from in Empire Strikes Back
#3 is Krishna. It took me a while to remember it. He says this about Shikhandi's story.
Lopa is right, both about Yoda and Krishna! Lopa, you're a close reader. All of you probably knew this already, but one day recently when I was re-watching Star Wars with my children, it struck me that Yoda is from the Sanskrit "yoddha," which means warrior!
The Yoda quote is one of my favorites and one I try to live by (though it's hard). The Krishna one I had to think about for a long time and then it came to me.
I didn't know that yoddha meant warrior. That's so cool. The Bengalis in the community where I grew up are all convinced though that Yoda was taken from drawings by Sukumar Ray.
Lopa, is this quote in The god of small things? (not sure if it is the same name in english)... Mrs. Divakaruni, a lot of fans came to comment ~_~ isn´t it great?
Here is a new kind of quotation challenge:
1. It was said by a cat to a little girl. hint: "road".
2. It was said by a leader in the African-American civil rights movement who was assassinated on April 4. hint: "character".
3. It is from Queen of dreams and it shows why Rakhi didn´t want to make her daughter have hopes of she and Sony rejoining. hint: "forgive"
This way is a little more difficult ~__~