"I wondered why people consider escapism so bad,……" — Saadat Hasan Manto
"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 its lack of pretension gives it its own sort of beauty."
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Saadat Hasan Manto
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11 Quotes by Saadat Hasan Manto
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Some people kiss as if they were eating watermelon
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But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the…
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If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose…
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Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with: "In the name of God, the Compassionate,…
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If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this…
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...and it is also possible, that Saadat Hasan dies, but Manto remains alive.
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If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this…
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Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these…
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I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together.
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If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, then why does he have to enter…
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