Teju Cole Quotes
born 1975 United States
Teju Cole (born June 27, 1975) is a Nigerian-American writer, photographer, and art historian.
- United States
- Novelists
- Photographers
Also known as: Everyday Is for the Thief, Open City (A novel), Open City (novel)
Random Teju Cole quote
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while the buildings and roads of the capital city suggest a rational, orderly society, the reality is the opposite
Every Day Is for the Thief (2007)
thousands of cars over the course of a day would pay toll at the informal rate, lining the pockets of the collectors and their superiors
Every Day Is for the Thief (2007)
I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from the rain, the smell of food and wine, interesting conversation, daylight falling weakly on the polished cherrywood of the tables.”
Open City (2011)
Action led to action, free of any moorings, and the way to be someone, the way to catch the attention of the young and recruit them to one's cause, was to be enraged. It seemed as if the only way this lure of violence could be avoided was by having no causes, by being magnificently isolated from all loyalties. But was that not an ethical lapse graver than rage itself?
Open City (2011)
Hey, hey young guy, why trouble yourself? They'll take your money anyway, and they'll punish you by delaying your passport. Is that what you want? Aren't you more interested in getting your passport than trying to prove a point?
Every Day Is for the Thief (2007)
Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, rises out of the Sahel like a modernist apparition. The avenues are clean and broad and the government buildings are imposing, with that soulless, vaguely fascistic air common to all capitals cities of the world…
Every Day Is for the Thief (2007)