Nadeem Aslam Quotes
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.
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Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.
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No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
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The other seeming oddity of its role as a national symbol is that it has achieved this status for Indians in spite of it being Islamic.
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The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.
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'Lambe them, lads! lambe them!' a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.
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The lack of collective dignity felt by so many in the Arab world is the result of a combination of internal autocratic and corrupt regimes, with predictable ineffective and unaccountable governance, supported by external actors with short-term geopolitical interests.
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...death seemed the most prevalent feature of the landscape.
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This woman is sick to her marrow-bone, this woman is utterly alone, with husband dead, with son away in jail. Pray for me. Pray.
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I'm really into psychology, and I want to be a psych major.
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Numerous studies have shown that global warming can actually be beneficial to mankind.
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I love my refrigerator.
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Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!
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It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can't or won't see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.
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Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.
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Passion is destructive; if it does not destroy, it dies.
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I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the senses. What they forget was that he also advocated, sternly and austerely, that one must be able to go through all that - and then articulate it.
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.
