Embarrassment Quote by Hisham Matar

“For an overwhelming majority of my life, my country has been a source of pain, fear, and embarrassment.”

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There and then, sitting beside her and within the strength of my adoration, I felt invincible.

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To be okay with not knowing is a sign of a mature person and a mature society.

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“History remembers Mussolini as the buffoonish Fascist, the ineffective silly man of Italy who led a lame military campaign in the Second World War,…

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Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.

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Dreams have consequences.

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Language is not just a code; you are writing into its history, into its tides.

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My parents were fairly laid-back, but there were certain things about which they were very strict. My brother and I were told never to…

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I am terribly interested in the paragraph: the paragraph as an object, the construction, and the possibilities of what a paragraph can do.

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My parents left Libya in 1979, escaping political repression, and settled in Cairo. I was nine.

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Libyans are deeply unsettled by Gaddafi and his regime's careless contempt for human life. The dictatorship is willing to employ any methods necessary to…

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My best hope is that Libya turns into a peaceful, sensible country that has all the things my father and lots of others have…

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Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man's exile. It is a rare narrative in that it charts a life divided between England and Sudan. Without a doubt it is one of the finest Arabic novels of the 20th century, and Denys Johnson-Davies' translationdoes the original justice.

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[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself. The symbolism was in - and this sounds really, really small, but it's actually big for African-Americans - the symbolism was not in being an embarrassment, but to being a figure that folks were actually proud of.

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