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The Making of the Modern Middle East: a fascinating personal account of the region’s complex history, politics, and power games

by Jeremy Bowen

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“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― E.E. Cummings, Poems, 1923-1954

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“and now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don't hear from me often, remember that you're in my thoughts.”
― Paul Auster, Moon Palace

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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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