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“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.”
― Sophocles

“How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be
When there’s no help in truth.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“Alas, how terrible is wisdom
when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew well, but had forgotten it,
else I would not have come here.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
― Charles Lamb, The life, letters and writings of Charles Lamb Volume 3

“ربآآه أشياءه الصغرى تعذبني . . فكيف انجوا من الأشياء ربآآآهُ


هنا جريدته في الركن مهملة
هنا كتاب معا قد قرأناه
على المقاعد بعض من سجائره
وفي الزوايا بقايا من بقاياه
مالي أحدق في المرآة أسألها
بأي ثوب من الأثواب ألقاه
أأدعي أنني أصبحت أكرهه
وكيف أكره من في الجفن سكناه
وكيف أهرب منه إنه قدري
هل يملك النهر تغييرا لمجراه
أحبه لست أدري ما أحب به
حتى خطاياه ما عادت خطاياه
الحب في الأرض بعض من تخيلنا
لو لم نجده عليها لاخترعناه
ماذا أقول له لو جاء يسألني
إن كنت أهواه إني ألف أهواه”
― نزار قباني

“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.
But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“جس الطبيب خافقي وقال لي:
هل هنا الألم ؟؟
قلت له : نعم
فشق بالمشرط جيب معطفي واخرج القلم !!
هز الطبيب رأسه.. ومال وأبتسم
وقال لي: ليس سوى قلم
فقلت :لا يا سيدي
هذا يد ...وفم
ورصاصة.. ودم
وتهمة سافرة.... تمشي بلا قدم !”
― أحمد مطر

“أريد الصمت كي أحيا، ولكن الذي ألقاه ينطقني..”
― أحمد مطر

“الحل

أنا لو كنت رئيساً عربيا
لحللت المشكلة…
و أرحت الشعب مما أثقله…
أنا لو كنت رئيساً
لدعوت الرؤساء…
و لألقيت خطاباً موجزاً
عما يعاني شعبنا منه
و عن سر العناء…
و لقاطعت جميع الأسئلة…
و قرأت البسملة…
و عليهم و على نفسي قذفت القنبلة…”
― أحمد مطر

“مفقودات

زارَ الرّئيسُ المؤتَمَنْ
بعضَ ولاياتِ الوَطنْ
وحينَ زارَ حَيَّنا
قالَ لنا :
هاتوا شكاواكم بصِدقٍ في العَلَنْ
ولا تَخافوا أَحَداً ..
فقَدْ مضى ذاكَ الزّمَنْ .
فقالَ صاحِبي ( حَسَنْ ) :
يا سيّدي
أينَ الرّغيفُ والَلّبَنْ ؟
وأينَ تأمينُ السّكَنْ ؟
وأينَ توفيرُ المِهَنْ ؟
وأينَ مَنْ
يُوفّرُ الدّواءَ للفقيرِ دونما ثَمَنْ ؟
يا سيّدي
لمْ نَرَ مِن ذلكَ شيئاً أبداً .
قالَ الرئيسُ في حَزَنْ :
أحْرَقَ ربّي جَسَدي
أَكلُّ هذا حاصِلٌ في بَلَدي ؟ !
شُكراً على صِدْقِكَ في تنبيهِنا يا وَلَدي
سوفَ ترى الخيرَ غَداً .
وَبَعْدَ عامٍ زارَنا
ومَرّةً ثانيَةً قالَ لنا :
هاتوا شكاواكمْ بِصدْقٍ في العَلَنْ
ولا تَخافوا أحَداً
فقد مَضى ذاكَ الزّمَنْ .
لم يَشتكِ النّاسُ !
فقُمتُ مُعْلِناً :
أينَ الرّغيفُ واللّبَنْ ؟
وأينَ تأمينُ السّكَنْ ؟
وأينَ توفيرُ المِهَنْ ؟
وأينَ مَنْ
يوفِّر الدّواءَ للفقيرِ دونمَا ثمَنْ ؟
مَعْذِرَةً يا سيّدي
..وَأينَ صاحبي ( حَسَنْ ) ؟!”
― أحمد مطر, لافتات - المجموعة الكاملة

“إلحاح

ما تهمتي؟
تهمتك العروبة
قلت لكم ما تهمتي؟
قلنا لك العروبة .
يا ناس قولوا غيرها .
أسألكم عن تهمتي ..
ليس عن العقوبة”
― أحمد مطر, لافتات - المجموعة الكاملة

“وطني ثوب مرقع كل جزء فيه مصنوع بمصنع!”
― أحمد مطر

“قلت: إذن عربنا سيشعرون بالخجل؟ - قال: تعال ابصق على وجهي .. إذا هذا حصل !”
― أحمد مطر

“Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Americus, Book I

“Blest are those
Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled,
That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger
To sound what stop she please.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”
― Rosemarie Urquico

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

“Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”
― Lawrence Durrell, Justine

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

“Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.”
― William Wordsworth, The Excursion 1814

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
― Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays