"Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her, and those who leave and yearn for her and blame her with bitterness for driving them away."

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Source : Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “The Map of Love”, p.59, Bloomsbury Publishing

Ahdaf Soueif

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“I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.”
“To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.”
“I think goodreads is the best place to look for books”
“The coaches today should realize that they are, after all, working with children who sometimes have to stand up to physical and moral stresses which not even all grown-ups could bear.”
“To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries.”
“Everything in life, I have come to conclude, is about 15 minutes too long. Except for summer - summer never begins early enough and always ends too soon.”

Source : Peter Gzowski (2001). “A Peter Gzowski Reader”, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
“I think about all my successes and failures, and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.”

Source : "Frank Lampard eager to lead Chelsea over Champions League final hurdle". Interview with Barney Ronay, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.
“I'm a serious person by nature - sometimes too serious.”

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