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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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Every morning the gazelle wakes up knowing she must run faster than the lion or will be dead. Every morning the lion wakes up knowing he must run faster than the gazelle or he'll starve. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun rises you better start to run.

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In war, the poor are killed. In peace, the poor dies.

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Mia Couto

Mia Couto

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Born: July 5, 1955 (age 70)

Bio: António Emílio Leite Couto, better known as Mia Couto, is a Mozambican writer and the winner of the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

Known for:

Sleepwalking Land (1992)
The Tuner of Silences (2012)
Rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada terra (2002)
Every man is a race (1994)
Last Flight Of The Flamingo (2004)

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