Saadat Hasan Manto Quotes
Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Here lies Saadat Hasan Manto and with him lie buried all the secrets and mysteries of the art of short-story writing.... Under tons of earth he lies, still wondering who among the two is greater short-story writer: God or He.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
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Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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I have a particular image, and my customers know my line isn't going to be so trendy it will be out of style next year.
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There are of course economic advantages to having Turkey as a member of the European club. It's a developing country with a large, reasonably well-trained labor force at a time when the European birth rate is dropping at a catastrophic rate and Europe is graying. It offers opportunities for greater trade and investment to the benefit of both Turkey and Europe.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
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What we need to do is take that inchoate sense that something isn't right and give it a structural component and the sense that things can be another way.
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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, the Merciful Here lies Saadat Hasan Manto and with him lie buried all the secrets and mysteries of the art of short-story writing.... Under tons of earth he lies, still wondering who among the two is greater short-story writer: God or He.
