Top 28 Hisham Matar Quotes
#1. So old and persistent did Mother's unhappiness seem that I had never stopped to ask its true cause. Nothing is more acceptable than that which we are born into.
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#2. Can you become a man without becoming your father?
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#3. When I first began writing In the Country of Men all I had was the voice of the protagonist. He intrigued me and my desire to want to know him and his world became almost compulsive.
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#5. My silence made her say things she didn't need to say..
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#6. Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into.
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#7. I wanted this world to still. I wanted to fix it and be fixed within it. But everything was on the move, the clouds, the wind ...
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#8. Nationalism is as thin as a thread, perhaps that's why many feel it must be anxiously guarded
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#9. How readily and thinly we procure these fictional selves, deceiving the world and what we might have become if only we hadn't got in the way, if only we had waited to see what might have become of us.
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#10. Books written out of fire give me a great deal of pleasure. You get the sense that the world for these writers could not have continued if the book hadn't been written. When you come across a book like that it is a privilege.
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#11. It's one thing not to fear death, another to sing under its sword.
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#12. And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that "knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.
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#13. I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write.
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#14. Naoma, and to the rest of the world she was Um
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#15. Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.
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#16. The world had to be sliced into hours to fill; otherwise you could go mad with loneliness.
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#17. Perhaps the world is fair and balanced after all; no one gains and no one loses or no one gains and everyone loses equally.
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#19. There and then, sitting beside her and within the strength of my adoration, I felt invincible.
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#20. I didn't know you were going to be so beautiful, fill my heart..
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#21. A corrupt mind turns everything to its advantage.
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#22. It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.
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#23. I wanted everything good in the world for him; every dream he had, all of his secret plans, to come true. I suddenly was glad that Mona was his.
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#24. At that time I would read passages of Father's books or a newspaper article that I was certain he had read because I wanted to follow a trail he had taken.
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#25. There are times when my father's absence is as heavy as a child sitting on my chest.
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#26. The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.
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#27. I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.
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#28. In the end all that remains are numbers, the measurement of distances, the quantity of things.
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