Abdelkebir Khatibi famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music
-- Abdelkebir Khatibi

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If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music
I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the â€œslow oneâ€ in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.
The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.
Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.
What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.

Abdelkebir Khatibi famous quotes

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