Top 24 Mohammed Hanif Quotes
#1. A professional who didn't miss his target even in his death. If your boss had half your sense of humour, this Pakiland of yours would be a much livelier place.
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#2. Men constantly feel hungry and women constantly feel sad. That's what marriage does to them. ~Teddy Butt, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
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#3. It's futile to predict what love will make of you, but sometimes it brings you things you never knew you wanted.
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#4. Shigri boy lost his marbles in the end but the plane General Zia is about to board has enough VX gas on it to wipe out a village.
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#5. The gate, probably built to accommodate an elephant procession, opens slowly and reveals an abandoned city dreamed up by a doomed king.
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#6. Let's have a mango party on Pak One. Let's bring back the good old days.
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#7. What's with books and soldiers? I wonder. The whole bloody army is turning into pansy intellectuals.
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#8. Alice Bhatti walks the walk of someone who thinks they can overcome their fear by taking measured steps.
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#9. Alice does not turn around, but only to stare at the judge, then she spits on the floor of the court and rushes out, two fat policewomen trying to keep pace with her.
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#10. Get some sleep, Secretary General, get some sleep. Revolution can wait till the morning.
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#11. Any man who reaches for a book when he thinks about you is a man that you should think about.
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#13. She wants a surprise so big and so heavy it could flatten her in the middle of the road. She want a tied-to-a-rocket-and-launched-into-space kind of surprise.
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#14. Life has taught Alice Bhatti that every little step forward in life is preceded by a ritual humiliation. Every little happiness asks for a down payment. Too many humiliations and a journey that goes in circles means that her face is permanently in the red. She accepts that role. 'I'll do my best'.
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#15. Now we must put our heads together and suck national security.
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#16. The innocent are punished. That's the world we live in.
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#17. He is an innocent in the way that lonesome canaries are innocent, flitting from one branch to another, the tender flutter of their wings and a few millilitres of blood keeping them airborne against the gravity of this world that wants to pull everyone down to its rotting surface.
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#18. Now she has lived long enough to know that cutting up women is a sport older than cricket but just as popular and equally full of obscure rituals and intricate rules that everyone seems to know except her.
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#19. Don't be frightened of your own reflection. We all have bad moments in front of the mirror," says Noor. "You should probably get married. I have heard that a good husband is the only cure for bad dreams. You know why? Because then you are sleeping with you nightmare.
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#20. He won't stop the war until you give him the peace prize.
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#21. Basic military rule: you manage your anger by kicking ass, not by rearranging the furniture in your room.
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#22. The problem with you khakis is that you have started believing your own nonsense.
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#23. Teddy accepts the challenge. 'It has bodies floating in it, and severed heads, bobbing up and down.' He realises that his dream doesn't sound very romantic. 'And some flowers also.
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