"A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction."

-- Alaa Al Aswany

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“I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is.”
“It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.”
“Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 22, 2011
“But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall.”

Source : Vincent O'Sullivan, James K. Baxter (1976). “James K. Baxter”
“In Cuba, what we do not accept is the comparison of our participatory democracy with bourgeois democracy which has not solved anything for humanity. The only thing it has done is to take humanity towards a precarious point. They have created the environmental crisis, the food crisis, the water crisis and the pandemics all over the world. The reason for that is because they have taken the majority of the resources and given it to militarism paid for by the western powers because it is a great business for them; this is the real truth.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary.”
“All over the world there must be far-reaching changes in animal behavior and habitat; if only one could have another life in which to chart it all....Ah, well, that's not a fruitful thing to wish, is it?”
“I do know one thing: I wish people were doing more dangerous musicals, more courageous musicals and not just falling into the trap of trying to figure out what the public wants, because you find out that the public very often wants what's good.”

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