Tchier

“أنا على يقين بأن من سيكتبون التاريخ بعد مئة عام سيقولون إن النفط لم يحقق الثروة للعرب إلا التعجيل في هلاكهم”
― أمين معلوف, التائهون

“A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of male friends? I replied that, on the contrary, I was an only child and had practically never seen or spoken to any men of my own age till I was about twenty-five. "Well," said the man, "I shouldn't have expected a woman (meaning me) to have been able to make it so convincing." I replied that I had coped with this difficult problem by making my men talk, as far as possible, like ordinary human beings. This aspect of the matter seemed to surprise the other speaker; he said no more, but took it away to chew it over. One of these days it may quite likely occur to him that women, as well as men, when left to themselves, talk very much like human beings also.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez