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“يجب أن تفكر أنت .. فكر لنفسك .. يجب أن تتشكك فى كل ما يقال لك .. إذا أخطأت فلأننى حاولت أن أعرف , إذا عرفت فإننى أخطىء , لأن الذى عرفته قليل جدا , والذى لا أعرفه كثير جدا ولأن عقلى صغير ووقتى قصير .. ولكن لا يهم ما الذى فهمت وكيف أخطأت المهم أننى حاولت وسوف أمضى فى المحاولة .. وخير لى أن يشنقونى لأننى حاولت فأخطأت من أن يتوجونى لأننى ماطلت وكذبت وانخدعت وخدعت .. !!”
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“The books still weren’t real, but maybe they were written about city women, television women, Yankee women—just about as strange as Zeus had always been and Jesus was getting to be.”
― Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature
― Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature
“Unconditional Love conquers all!”
― Love is the Answer God is the Cure
― Love is the Answer God is the Cure
“My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together.”
― The Woman Destroyed
― The Woman Destroyed
“The troops arrived at the wall together and swept into the village, some through the gates and some through the holes blasted by the artillery. Then the slaughter began as they went from hut to hut, winkling out the defenders at bayonet point. The screaming showed the progress of the individual battles across the village until at last it was quiet.”
― No Road to Khartoum
― No Road to Khartoum
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