Amir > Amir's Quotes

“If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!”
― Nick Cave

“I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slip-over jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy's. She started all that. She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht, and you missed none of it with that wool jersey.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“This is a good place," he said.
"There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“در تمام میهمانی‌ها
آویز گردن من
کلید خانه‌ی توست

حالا بگذریم
مرا جرأت آمدن نیست و
تو را
جرأت عوض کردن قفل”
― سارا محمدی اردهالی / Sara Mohamadi Ardehali, روباه سفیدی که عاشق موسیقی بود

“باری، ایرانی‌ها بعد از تلاشهای گوناگون، بعد از ۴۰۰ سال ـ با برگشت به گذشته تاریخ خودشان ـ با تشکیل حکومتهای ایرانی و تکیه به زبان فارسی در قرن چهارم هجری، ملتی بودند با هویتی جداگانه و مخصوص خودشان؛ ملت تازه‌ای، نه آن قوم فرسوده و بی‌رمق آخرهای ساسانی، بلکه ملت تازه‌ای تولد یافته بود با آگاهی به هویت خود ـ خودآگاه ـ با دین و تمدنی تازه. گذشته، پشتوانه یا تکیه‌گاه این هویت بود و زبان، جلوه‌گاهش؛ درخت تازه‌ای بود که در آب و هوای اسلام پرورش یافته بود، ام بر زمین خاطرهٔ قومی خود.‏

ـ هویت ایرانی و زبان فارسی”
― شاهرخ مسکوب

“I know too much and not enough”
― Allen Ginsberg