What did Teju Cole mean by: A MOB is not, as is so often said, mindless. A MOB is single-minded. - Teju Cole Writer · Nigeria Copy
+ The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Teju Cole, Cities, 0 - Teju Cole Writer · Nigeria
+ There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Teju Cole, Expectations, Sin, Sinner, 0 - Teju Cole Writer · Nigeria
+ Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I’ll go against the mob. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Teju Cole, Promise, 0 - Teju Cole Writer · Nigeria
+ Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Teju Cole, Writing, 0 - Teju Cole Writer · Nigeria
+ I couldn’t remember what life was like before I started walking. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Teju Cole, Remember, Walking, 0 - Teju Cole Writer · Nigeria
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France