"The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation."

-- James Buchan

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“For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see a reason to choose just one type of music at the exclusion of everything else. Different types of music are capable of being rewarding in different kinds of ways.”
“I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.”
“I have never said authoritarians are pathological”
“Ignoring expectations makes you look at the world in a fresh way.”
“Complexity serves nothing but our ego. Be able to say what you do in a way that people can understand.”
“The Prophet also said: "A truthful and trustworthy merchant is associated with the prophets."”
“I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.”

Source : "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.
“Every one of us, as human beings, even in a committed relationship, has moments and thoughts and actions that, whether or not they share them with their loved one, tells you, as much as anything, about them as people and their relationship.”

Source : "Executive Producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman Interview FRINGE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 18, 2011.

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