"Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl."

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Source : "Voice of the Maghreb". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2006.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

#Friendship Quotes #Real Quotes #Pearls Quotes

“The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and the mouth. Farther away and nearer still, still it came from dead fathers and from wondering races, from lands which had turned to stone, lands weary of their poor tribes, for when grief took to the roads the people set out and arrived and married new land and water to grow their words again. And so this is the inheritance; this is the wavelength which connects us with dead men and the dawning of new beings not yet come to light.”
“The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me.”
“Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know whoâ€™s boss.”
“I was named after the next-door neighbor's German shepherd. It was either that or Cadillac Smith.”
“Gratitude connects us to others and feeling gratitude allows us to be our best selves. When we are truly grateful, we can count on living the life we want”
“Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.”
“We live as if we know how everything will turn out. I certainly lived that way. But we don't know anything. Really, we don't.”
“The pursuit of exotic beauty in such a life would have been like having a ball of tinfoil in your stomach, all that airy metal filling you up with hunger.”

Source : Laura Kasischke (2014). “White Bird in a Blizzard”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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