"Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins."

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Source : Assia Djebar (1993). “Fantasia, an Algerian Cavalcade”, Heinemann Educational Publishers

Assia Djebar

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“In the days before the vote, I bet that the British would stay in the EU.”
“The modern public school derived from a philosophy of freedom reflected in the First Amendment ... The non-sectarian or secular public school was the means of reconciling freedom in general with religious freedom.”
“The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an instrument of trade-this is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechanism of existence.”
“Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.”
“I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.”
“Today, let's set our minds and hearts on feeling more thankful for what we are than guilty for what we're not. Let's cut the threads of guilt with grace.”
“One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.”
“People are tired of the status quo. You see that in various movements in and out of our [the Republicans]party, but most candidates are offering hollow rhetoric, not specific solutions.”

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