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Mohammed Naseehu Ali
7 quotes
“The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life.”
Mohammed Naseehu Ali (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“.if I were to ever have enough material or the philosophical mind to write a book about what a good life ought to be, my thesis would be simply this: A good life is one that has managed to turn anxiety into hope, and fear into success. And that is what I call total virtue.”
Mohammed Naseehu Ali (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was aware that my daring escape had made Uncle look like a fool, and I knew that from that evening on I would be in the crosshairs of his vengeance.”
Mohammed Naseehu Ali (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Heaven knows what would have become of my life if I didn’t attend Interlochen. One thing I am certain about is that I would not have become a writer. But my experience at the Academy didn’t only shape me into the writer I am today. It was a holistic experience, an education that not only nurtured the little talent I brought with me from Ghana, but went even further to mold me into the adult I would become.”
Mohammed Naseehu Ali (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing brings a story to life, nothing makes a reader relate to a character, nothing makes a story’s universe believable and almost true-to-life more than the language of the narrator and the characters.”
Mohammed Naseehu Ali (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A story becomes universal when the main character is steeped deeply into her environment and its language. A scream of joy or pain from a character, if captured in its regional form, communicates the character’s emotional state to the reader, even if the scream is a series of twaddle in the reader’s ears.”
Mohammed Naseehu Ali (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even though we know he is crazy, you shouldn’t have had him saying all those things about us and Islam,” completely ignoring the fact that we are still talking about a work of fiction.”
Mohammed Naseehu Ali (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source