"You learn something from the classics but your feelings and your imagination operate in the domain of the colloquial. We need to think seriously about reforming the Arabic that we use today."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Hassan Blasim

#Thinking Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“What are these so-called austerity measures? What do they really bring? Oh, they bring a lot more poverty. Oh, they bring a worse GDP. Oh, they bring more unemployment.”
“I am proud to work with the fossil fuel industry. I think it has historically done a horrible job of educating the public and I think my ideas will help it make a better case for freedom.”
“A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone, and itâ€™s marvelous for the stone and marvelous for the teacher.”
“I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.”
“When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.”
“You have to design a story that might appear on the front page of the newspaper for the website. You don't have to design it in such a way that it can be self contained, that it makes sense if you never hit the front page of it.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.
“I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.”
“I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.”

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