Mohammed El-sayed

“This country was hard on people. But they never seemed to hold it to account. In a way that seems peculiar. That they didn't. You think about what all has happened to just this one family. I don't know what I'm doin here still knockin around. All them young people. We don't know where half of em is even buried at. You got to ask what was the good in all that. So I go back to that. How come people dont feel like this country has got a lot to answer for? They dont. You can say that the country is just the country, it dont actively do nothin, but that dont mean much...This country will kill you in a heartbeat and people still love it. You understand what I'm sayin?”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“1 نزلت عليه الحرية كالوحي فملأه يقينا لا سبيل إلى الشك فيه , أنه حر يفعل ما يشاء كيف شاء حين شاء , غير مذعن لقوة أو خاضع لعلة , لسبب خارجي أو باعث باطني. حل مسألة الإرادة في ثانية واحدة , وأنقذها بحماس فائق من وطأة العلل , وداخله شعور بالسعادة والتفوق عجيب , فألقى نظرة ازدراء على الخلق الذين يضربون في جوانب السبل مسيرين مصفدين لا يملكون لأنفسهم ضرا ولا نفعا , إذا ساروا لم يملكوا أن يقفوا , وإذا وقفوا لم يملكوا أن يسيروا ...

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إن انقضاء الليل والنهار يُنسي , ومن ينغمر في الدنيا يذهل على نفسه , وللحياة جلبة تبتلع همسات الضمير .”
― نجيب محفوظ, همس الجنون

“لا سبيل للتفاهم بيننا، فأنت ممن يخافون الحياة وأنا ممن يزدرونها، وجميع ما ترتعد منه لمجرد تصوره؛ قد عانيته.. جميع ما تسأل الله ألا يقع قد ذهبت إليه فوق قدمي.”
― نجيب محفوظ, قلب الليل

“I dont make excuses for the way I think. Not no more. I talk to my daughter. She would be thirty now. That's all right. I dont care how that sounds. I like talkin to her. Call it superstitious or whatever you want. I know that over the years I have give her the heart I always wanted for myself and that's all right. That's why I listen to her. I know I'll always get the best from her. It dont get mixed up with my own ignorance or my own meanness. I know how that sounds and I guess I'd have to say that I dont care. I never even told my wife and we dont have a whole lot of secrets from one another. I dont think she'd say I'm crazy but some might. Ed Tom? Year, they had to swear out a lunacy warrant. I hear they're feeding him under the door. That's all right. I listen to what she says and what she says makes good sense. I wish she'd say more of it. I can use all that help I can get. Well, that's enough of that.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men