Mia Couto Quotes

• Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.

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  Cells, Atoms, Stories

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• Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for a befitting mind.

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  Ideas, People, Mind

  Mia Couto, David Brookshaw (2006). “Sleepwalking Land”, p.39, Profile Books

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• El que busca la eternidad debe mirar al cielo, el que busca el momento, debe mirar a la nube.

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  Sky, Clouds, Looks

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• Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness.

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  Country, Made, Forgetfulness

  "Neustadt Prize Winner Reflects On The Civil War That Shaped Him". Interview with Sarah Hurd and Suzette Grillot, kgou.org. November 14, 2014.

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• Love is a territory where orders can't be issued.

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  Love Is, Order, Territory

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• I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears.

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  Years, Tears, Saws

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