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Denys Johnson-Davies

"Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (.....) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a great service by developing, over the years, a form of language in which many of the archaisms and cliches that had become fashionable were discarded, a language that could serve as an adequate instrument for the writing of fiction in these times."

Source : "Naguib Mahfouz" by Denys Johnson-Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2006.

Denys Johnson-Davies

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“With Legion, we're our own universe. It gives Noah [Hawley] the freedom to do what he wants to do. Because we play with so many different timelines, and we rebooted and not really rebooted and all that, we felt like, OK, we're going to throw it out there and hope the fans accept it.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“It's easy to get caught up in how our figures look when we stand naked in front of the mirror. But we must remember that we are more than how we look. We are not ***** who happen to have hearts, minds, and souls; rather, we are souls that just happen to have mounds of flesh protruding from our chests.”
“In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1946). “Books and Gardens”
“To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ.”

Source : "Exsurge Domine". Book by Pope Leo X, June 15, 1520.
“Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold ofâ€”and which, if wrested away without the substitution of another something in its place, would leave a void and a vacancy as painful to the mind, as hunger is to the natural systemâ€¦. The heart must have something to cling toâ€¦”

Source : Thomas Chalmers (1855). “Sermons: Select Works”, p.250
“Some people hate Jews. Fine, alright it's been done. I mean, that's part of my problem with it. Could you hate somebody new? I'm not giving you any suggestions but the Belgians have had a good run.”
“First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.”
“Mastery is revealed in limitation.”

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