“When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job.”
― Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
― Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
“A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.”
― The Satanic Verses
― The Satanic Verses
“This is who we are as a species: We contain within ourselves both the possibility of murdering an old stranger for almost no reason - the capacity in Shakespeare's Iago which Coleridge called "motiveless Malignity" - and we also contain the antidote to that disease - courage, selflessness, the willingness to risk oneself to help that old stranger lying on the ground.”
― Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
― Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
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