Saadat Hasan Manto Quotes

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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• I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.

  

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• The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.

  

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• I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.

  

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• I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

  

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• Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

  

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• During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
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• My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

  

  Ed Bradley
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• Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.

  

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• I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.

  

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• We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

  

  Walker Percy
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• I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.

  

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• Speed can't always get you wickets.

  

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• I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.

  

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• I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.

  

  Kara Swisher
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• Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.

  

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• Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

  

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• During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.

  

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• I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.

  

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• Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

  

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• My aunts and uncles were like, 'You've got such a great voice - why don't you try out for 'American Idol?'' I'd say, 'Because I'm a songwriter, not a puppet.' Even if I won and became really successful off a show like that, I'd be miserable.

  

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• I was born into Sudan's civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict between the Muslim north and Animist/Christian south over the land and natural resources.

  

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• Amy Sedaris makes me laugh harder than anybody.

  

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• I didn't really like the '80s, to be honest with you. There was some good music that came out, but it went a bit disco for me.

  

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• 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.

  

  Saadat Hasan Manto
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