"Perhaps all one can really hope for, all I am entitled to, is no more than this: to write it down. To report what I know. So that it will not be possible for any man ever to say again: I knew nothing about it."

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Source : A Dry White Season epilogue (1980)

AndrÃ© Brink

#Writing Quotes #Men Quotes

“Republicans cannot continue to oppose every Hispanic issue.”
“Next thing you know, the hoe starts to ill, She says "I love you, Harold" and your name is Will!”
“Men tend to lie when it comes to sexual conquests. You should hear some of the ego-driven lies my friends have told me: 'Swear to God, man - the hooker gave the money back.'”
“The notion of "humanity" as a form of transcendence derives, I think, from the conviction that intellectuality possesses an absolute power, from the demand that our best behavior depends on our ability to think abstractly, in terms of a universal rule, about something called humanity, that we need to understand humanity abstractly so that we can act responsibly towards those who represent it.”

Source : "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.jadaliyya.com. February 3, 2015.
“Growing up I always used to shop in Oxfam. I'd find things for 50p and then take them home, cut them up and make them into something new.”
“Who are you and what have you done with my brother?”
“I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.”
“But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?”

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