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Ahdaf Soueif has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 -- they…
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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 and complain…
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And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? is…
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It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice…
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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 he did…
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I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as…
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That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress…
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I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims…
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But things move on and by the time you've plotted your position the world around you has changed and you are running…
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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 you wanted…
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I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as…
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Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto…
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An ancient musician informed me, that there were some famous lutes that attained not their full seasoning and best resonance till they…
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