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“الأشياء مثل بقية الأشياء .. لا يمتاز منها
إلا ما نُميِّزه نحنُ بما نكسوه به
من وَهْمٍ وظنٍ واعتقاد.”
― يوسف زيدان, عزازيل

“أيّ ذكرى مؤلمة بالضرورة. حتى لو كانت من ذكريات اللحظات الهانئة، فتلك أيضا مؤلمة لفواتها.”
― يوسف زيدان, عزازيل

“ليس فقركم ذنبنا!ألا تفهمين بعد أنكم تدفعون ثمن حماقتكم و غبائكم و خنوعكم؟ عندما كان أباؤنا يقتنصون الفرص كان أباؤكم يقفون أمام طوابير الرواتب في المصالح الحكومية ، ثم لم تعد هناك مصالح حكومية. لم تعد هناك رواتب.أنتم لم تفهموا اللعبة مبكرا لهذا هويتم من أعلى إلى حيث لا يوجد قاع. ما ذنبنا نحن؟ عندما هب الجميع ثائرين في كل قطر في الأرض هززتم أنتم رءوسكم و تذرعتم بالإيمان و الرضا بما قسم لكم. تدينكم زائف تبررون به ضعفكم.”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, يوتوبيا

“لا يتحمل الحياة بلا أحلام ..
منذ طفولتي لم أجرب العيش بلا أحلام ..
أن تنتظر شيئًا .. أن تُحرم من شيء .. أن تغلق عينيك ليلًا وأنت تأمل في شيء .. أن تتلقى وعدًا بشيء ..”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, يوتوبيا

“ليست الثقافة دينا يوحد بين القلوب ويؤلفها, بل هى على الأرجح تفرقها؛ لأنها تطلع المظلومين على هول الظلم الذى يعانونه, وتطلع المحظوظين على ما يمكن أن يفقدوه”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, يوتوبيا

“كنت أقول لهم: (ها أنتم أولاء يا كلاب قد انحدر بكم الحال حتى صرتم تأكلون الكلاب ، لقد أنذرتكم ألف مرة. حكيت لكم نظريات مالتوس وجمال حمدان ونبوءات أورويل وويلز ، لكنكم في كل مرة تنتشون بالحشيش والخمر الرخيصة وتنامون.إن غضبتي عليكم كغضبة أنبياء العهد القديم على قومهم.. ألعنكم) لكن ما أثار رعبي أنهم لا يبالون على الإطلاق. إنهم يبحثون عن المرأة التالية و لفافة التبغ التالية و الوجبة التالية ، ولا يشعرون بما وصلوا إليه.”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, يوتوبيا

“الحل الوحيد للمشاكل النفسية هو: لا تكن عاطلاً… لا تكن وحيداً”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

“الخجل ينبع من توهمك لأهمية مبالغ فيها لنفسك .. أنت لست مهماً كما تعتقد .. لست مهماً على الإطلاق وليس هناك شخص متفرغ لمراقبة خلجاتك وأخطائك”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, زغازيغ

“إنه الخلط المعتاد في مجتمعنا حينما يفترض أن المتفوق في دراسته مثقف حاد البصيرة كذلك.”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, لست وحدك

“لماذا كان اباطرة روما و عامة الشعب يحبون مشاهدة العبيد يمزقون بعضهم ؟ ..لماذا لم يكسب الفقر الفقراء رحمة ؟”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, يوتوبيا

“لا يوجد في العالم أسمى من دفع الآلام عن انسان لايستطيع التعبير عن ألمه”
― يوسف زيدان, عزازيل

“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”
― J.D. Salinger

“I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rule."

Yes, sir. I know it is. I know it."

Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right-I'll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game.”
― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she's fall off the goddam horse, but I didn't say or do anything. The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it is bad to say anything to them.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose. Try it sometime. I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say "Holden Caulfield" on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say "Fuck you." I'm positive, in fact.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Lawyers are alright, I guess — but it doesn't appeal to me", I said. "I mean they're alright if they go around saving innocent guys' lives all the time, and like that, but you don't do that kind of stuff if you're a lawyer. All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hot-shot. And besides, even if you did go around saving guys' lives and all, how would you know if you did it because you really wanted to save guys' lives, or because you did it because what you really wanted to do was be a terrific lawyer, with everybody slapping you on the back and congratulating you in court when the goddam trial was over, the reporters and everybody, the way it is in the dirty movies? How would you know you weren't being a phony? The trouble is you wouldn't.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I don't care if it's a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye