Quotes About Matar

#1. What should we do? I was beginning to understand a few words of Spanish: to escape, fugar; prisoner, preso; to kill, matar; chain, cadena; handcuffs, esposas; man, hombre; woman, mujer.

Henri Charriere

#2. It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.

Hisham Matar

#3. Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.

Hisham Matar

#4. The world had to be sliced into hours to fill; otherwise you could go mad with loneliness.

Hisham Matar

#5. Perhaps the world is fair and balanced after all; no one gains and no one loses or no one gains and everyone loses equally.

Hisham Matar

#6. One's nature is like a mountain

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#7. I don't even know how to sell a piece of artwork of mine because it's so personal.

Swizz Beatz

#8. There and then, sitting beside her and within the strength of my adoration, I felt invincible.

Hisham Matar

#9. I didn't know you were going to be so beautiful, fill my heart..

Hisham Matar

#10. A corrupt mind turns everything to its advantage.

Hisham Matar

#11. I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write.

Hisham Matar

#12. 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.

Hisham Matar

#13. 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.

Hisham Matar

#14. The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness.

Mason Cooley

#15. There are times when my father's absence is as heavy as a child sitting on my chest.

Hisham Matar

#16. The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

Hisham Matar

#17. I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.

Hisham Matar

#18. Democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down.

Vandana Shiva

#19. In the end all that remains are numbers, the measurement of distances, the quantity of things.

Hisham Matar

#20. Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into.

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#21. 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.

Hisham Matar

#22. Can you become a man without becoming your father?

Hisham Matar

#23. Twentieth century man must boldly reach out ... And purposefully strive to discover the hidden secrets of our universe.

John Young

#24. While reading Emotionally Wounded Spiritually Strong washing clothes taday I got up to page 52-54 and I had to stop for a sech it brought tears to my eyes to think how the devil had a plan on my family from the beginning. How PPL thought we were the perfect family. Thank God for Jesus.

Tarran Carter

#25. 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.

Hisham Matar

#26. We are...two open pages of the same book

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#27. Only use the mind for practical ways in life. Use your deep inner body energy, observation and breath to glide through life.

Matthew Donnelly

#28. My silence made her say things she didn't need to say..

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#29. Naoma, and to the rest of the world she was Um

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#30. Authorize the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers.

Newt Gingrich

#31. 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 ...

Hisham Matar

#32. Nationalism is as thin as a thread, perhaps that's why many feel it must be anxiously guarded

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#33. 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.

Hisham Matar

#34. The human genome is a script, waiting for the amino actors, the protein players to strut and fret their hour.

Johnny Rich

#35. 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.

Hisham Matar

#36. It's one thing not to fear death, another to sing under its sword.

Hisham Matar

#37. 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.

Hisham Matar