"We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity."

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Source : Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Sugar Street: The Cairo Trilogy”, p.89, Anchor

Naguib Mahfouz

#Reading Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“When I went into 'Fiddler,' I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye.”
“Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?”
“Being on the road is like a campout. I'm the only girl. The guys in my band are like my big brothers. It's definitely an adventure, but it can be a nomadic lifestyle.”
“The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.”

Source : "The Very Best of Victor Borge". Book by Victor Borge, 1995.
“I always had a strong support system. My parents always supported the stuff that I did.”
“I really like films and plays that cross over different genres. So I'd like to do something that you think is a drama and then you think is a supernatural thing and then becomes a drama again. That's very vague.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.”
“You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all absurdities and quirky national behaviors can be found,”

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