"For seven years I wrote and published my texts on the Internet and no Arab festival invited me and no Arab publishing house wanted to publish my books, and I wasn't known in the Western world because of my political positions."

-- Hassan Blasim

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“The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.”
“I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.”

Source : Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 27, 2016.
“In a world of such beauty as birds in flight, surely I can come to feel at home again, even after my loss.”
“The common law of this state held man and wife to be one person, but that person was the husband.”
“The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.”
“I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.”
“Who ... what are they?" "My pride and glory," Alex said fondly. "Betty and Lucy Coltrane. Best damned bouncers in the business. Though of course I'd never tell them that. Fiercer than pit bulls and cheaper to run. Married to each other. They had a dog once, but they ate it.”

Source : Simon R. Green (2003). “Something from the Nightside”, p.37, Penguin
“When I read the books, I imagined that the family of Ron Weasley was my family.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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