"Dreams have consequences. There is no turning back. A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build. Its temperament is desperate. It is a tormented response to the past, to all that has happened, the recalled and unrecalled injusticesâ€”for the memory of a revolution reaches much further back than the memory of its protagonists."

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Source : "The Consequences of Dreams" by Hisham Matar, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2014.

Hisham Matar

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“I always watch the work I do.”

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“I've got to be comfortable when I'm on stage.”
“It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.”

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