Saadat Hasan Manto

...and it is also possible, that Saadat Hasan dies, but Manto remains alive.

— Saadat Hasan Manto

But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries --…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

“You would have realized that it wasn't Mumtaz, a muslim, a friend of yours, but a human being you had killed. I…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

“Writers rarely set out to be national writers. They need small, intimate worlds, full of details; the macro scale of countries, especially…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

“Manto's take on Ismat: "Ismat’s pen and tongue both run fast. When she starts writing, her ideas race ahead and the words…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

“Look this is hardly fair. You sold me impure petrol at black-market price and not even one shop could be put to…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

“Her pores were like those of an orange, its skin filled with juice, which, if you applied the slightest pressure, would squirt…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Some people kiss as if they were eating watermelon

— Saadat Hasan Manto

I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together.

— Saadat Hasan Manto

If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth

— Saadat Hasan Manto

If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, then why does he have to enter animality into…

— Saadat Hasan Manto