

“To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...”
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“The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America. ”
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“World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps”
― Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag
― Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag

“Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with:
"In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Here lies Saadat Hasan Manto and with him lie buried all the secrets and mysteries of the art of short-story writing....
Under tons of earth he lies, still wondering who among the two is greater short-story writer: God or He.”
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"In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Here lies Saadat Hasan Manto and with him lie buried all the secrets and mysteries of the art of short-story writing....
Under tons of earth he lies, still wondering who among the two is greater short-story writer: God or He.”
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“The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake”
― A Fine Balance
― A Fine Balance
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