ElSayed Mahmoud ElSehamy
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“I always went to bed like someone getting ready for a long trip: books, pills, glasses of water, clocks, a light, pencils, notebooks. To go to bed and switch off the light has been for me to submit to a totally unknown world, full of delicious as well as sinister promises.”
― Before Night Falls
― Before Night Falls
“Rich folk dislike hearing poor people complain of their poverty.”
― Poor Folk
― Poor Folk
“Literature is a sort of picture—a sort of picture or mirror.”
― Poor Folk
― Poor Folk
“If Cuba is Hell, Miami is Purgatory.”
― Before Night Falls
― Before Night Falls
“Yes, all that you have done to give me pleasure has become converted into a source of grief, and left behind it only useless regret.”
― Poor Folk
― Poor Folk
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