Bilal Tanweer Quotes

#1. True Stories are fragments. Anything longer is a lie, a fabrication

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#2. Ever seen a bullet-smashed windscreen?
The hole at the center becomes an eye. You see less through it but you gain focus, sharpness. That's how it is -- our wounds become our eyes. Seeing outside becomes seeing inside.
Listen.

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#3. We must learn to see it in many ways, so that when one of the ways of looking hurts us, we can take refuge in another way of looking. You must always love the city.

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#4. for the first time I am confronted with the fact that places and people are like things: both made of memories and meaningful to us in the same way: we construct ourselves in our conversations with them.

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#5. Reasons were invented, and stories were reasons that allowed us to connect ourselves to the world, to compose ourselves in ways that others could read. Fragments were true but we needed stories greater than fragments. We needed stories in order to imagine the mad world we lived in.

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#6. Even when it gets messy, get out as cleanly as possible!

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#7. Things taste sweeter when you have some hunger left to linger. You feel it hunting your head for buried things; digging into the fractures of your breath warm and greedy.

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#8. Once you tell somebody a story, you are all in the same world and you can all speak to each other about the same things and understand the same things.

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#9. What appears strange and complex becomes stranger and more complicated once you begin to investigate it. That's the true nature of the world.

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#10. The sea, you see, feels good for only a few days, but then it starts suffocating you. You first escape to the sea to escape yourself, but after a while that's all you find there. City is better that way. There are too many lanes and alleys. You never run into yourself there.

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#11. My dear, you are not one person. You have many people in you, and each one can ask only some kinds of questions.

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#12. a city is all about how you look at it

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#13. people who ran away are friends!

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#14. That was the strange problem with writing, you had discovered. Meaning never matched the words and words always evaded the thought.

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