"But things move on and by the time……" — Ahdaf Soueif
"But things move on and by the time you've plotted your position the world around you has changed and you are running -panting- to catch up."
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12 Quotes by Ahdaf Soueif
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Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing
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You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that…
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Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her…
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And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her…
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It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone…
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She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes,He took her for granted, of course…
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I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you…
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That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it…
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I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and…
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If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?
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Tell me, if you thought a man had a tendresse for you, but he wasn't doing anything about it. And…
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
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There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you…
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The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the…
— Dave Barry
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You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it…
— Erma Bombeck
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I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I…
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