"I tend to go back and forth between old favourites and "new" stuff, some of which could easily be by authors I've hitherto heard about but haven't had the chance to catch up with."

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Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com

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“It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.”
“When I moved into making sculpture, I could handle steel the way it had been handled in the technological revolution. I could use it the way bridge builders used it; I could use it the way they used it in industry and building and not the way it had been used in art.”
“If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.”
“After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.”
“Landmines are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because they continue to kill and maim innocent people long after the war itself has ended. Also, fear of them keeps people off the land, and thus prevents them from growing food.”
“You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.”
“Some say it appears that painting has come to an end. I say the problem is that the painters' curiosity has come to an end, and this is more observable in the West and not in the East, since in the East there are plenty of untouched and unexplored spaces that could still inspire an artist as sources of creativity.”

Source : Negin magazine, No 77, p. 57, 1971.
“While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger”

Source : "Britain's foreign secretary broadcasts message to Afghan people". www.cnn.com. October 5, 2001.

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