Saadat Hasan Manto Quotes

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• I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end…
• Some people kiss as if they were eating watermelon
• But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether…
• If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth
• Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Here lies Saadat…
• If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human emotion?...Is love incompelete…
• ...and it is also possible, that Saadat Hasan dies, but Manto remains alive.
• If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked.…
• Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice…
• I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together.
• If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, then why does he have to enter animality into it?...Can love not…

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