"And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?Her resilience ?Her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? Is that true or is it just a consolation ? A shifting of responsibility? And if it is true , how much can she absorb and still remain Egypt ?"
Ahdaf Soueif
"The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable. What we currently consider to be true--both objectively and subjectively--is habitually provisional."
Chuck Klosterman
"We have to be honest to ourselves to see honesty in others."
Anonymous
"Stars can't shine without darkness."
Unknown
"If you see an old man talking to himself, he might not be a fool or crazy. He might be sharing a conversation with the past, warmed by a memory he need not reveal."
Steven Merle Scott
"If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about."
Ernest Hemingway
"No-one can own our Lord Buddha. That would be a foolish claim, but the roads that lead to him, the Way... That is a different matter. They are all filled with toll-gates, like the roads of Japan, and the monks collect the fees."
Erik Christian Haugaard
"Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts."
Robert Jordan
"The guilt applies only to those things that are being given away for free."
David Sedaris
"I truly believed that a man should not be seen to be out front on feminism. That would be just like a man to try to take over the women's movement. We'd taken over everything else in history, in society, in the world, why not feminism, too? No, I don't think so."
Terry Fallis
"Never tell a depressed person to “Cheer up.” Unless you want them to tell you to “Shut up."
Toni Sorenson
"The only color I judge people by is the color of their teeth."
Ziad K. Abdelnour
"Outdated ideas inevitably lead to outdated behaviors. When ignorance and hate enter the room, progress makes its exit."
Anonymous
"You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good."
Dorianne Laux
"Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away."
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