"Open City" Quotes
"Open City" follows a Nigerian immigrant wandering through New York City as he reflects on identity, history, and personal memory.
fiction | 259 pages | Published in 2011
Quotes
When you’re in a new city, the past doesn’t matter.
We are more than the stories that we have been told.
The world is strange, and the mind is unpredictable.
We are, each of us, what we have experienced and what has been done to us.
A man who has made his way in the world has no time to concern himself with the scorn of the ignorant.
We are creatures of the mind.
The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float.
Every history is a palimpsest, a codex, a storybook, a bundle of lies.
Every human life is a history of pain.
Every person’s story is important, even the most humble.
