Ahdaf Soueif Quotes

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• Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing
• You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they don't really exist.…
• Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her, and…
• And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? is that true or…
• It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice is so fleeting…
• She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes,He took her for granted, of course he did , but he…
• I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as great as yours…
• That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse…
• I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this question…
• 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…
• If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?
• Tell me, if you thought a man had a tendresse for you, but he wasn't doing anything about it. And you wanted to hurry him…

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