"Migration was not the only unpleasant experience I went though. I was born and lived in a country ruled by a brutal dictator whose wars never ended, and from an early age I was passionate about understanding the world through knowledge."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Hassan Blasim

#Country Quotes #War Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.”
“It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.”
“Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'”
“It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.”
“Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.”
“Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people.”
“I'm rather uncomfortable with celebrity, to be honest.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism.”

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