"A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is……" — Hilary Mantel
"A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and starving ponies cropping the mud. It is a landscape running with outcasts and escapees, with Afghans, Turks and Kurds: with scapegoats, scarred with bottle and burn marks, limping from the cities with broken ribs. The life forms here are rejects, or anomalies: the cats tipped from speeding cars, and the Heathrow sheep, their fleece clotted with the stench of aviation fuel."
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109 Quotes by Hilary Mantel
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Beneath every history, another history.
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Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.
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Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world,…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Because of you, in Afghanistan we've broken the momentum of the Taliban. Because of you, we've begun a transition to…
— Barack Obama
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The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak…
— Chris Hedges
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Do we really think that the United States will have the protection of innocent Afghans in mind if it rains…
— George Lakoff
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This is so like the way the Americans deliberately erroneously refer to Afghans and Iraqis as terrorists when they fight…
— Bob Barker
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Luckily ... there were Zulus and Afghans, also the Dervishes in the Soudan. Some of these might, if they were…
— Winston Churchill
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We have not ceased to insist that an Islam of tolerance is advantageous to all Muslims, for the Afghans and…
— Ahmad Shah Massoud
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God must have loved Afghans because he made them so beautiful.
— Alexander the Great
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There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting…
— Lakhdar Brahimi
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May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of…
— Alexander the Great
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Afghans think the burqa is a permanent part of culture. But, if you bring it to Europe, how would people…
— Malina Suliman
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