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The word for citizen in Pashto, Dari, and other languages spoken in Afghanistan is an Arabic word taba’a meaning “subject.” Even the new constitution of Afghanistan uses this Arabic word when referring to its citizens. The traditional
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“Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that won’t educate its people to read these things. It would be a much more interesting place if it would. And it’s not just that mechanics and plumbers don’t read literary fiction, it’s that doctors and lawyers don’t read literary fiction. It has nothing to do with class, it has to do with an anti-intellectual culture that doesn’t trust art.”
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“Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.”
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“If you stay alive for no reason at all, please do it for spite.”
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