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“...who tolerates, which is intolerable; who is kind, which is cruel; who understands, which is beyond comprehension...”
― Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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“The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.”
― Carl Hiaasen

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“All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.”
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

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“Manto had earlier been prosecuted in Lahore for obscenity, and one of the words alleged to have been obscene was, “breasts”
― Saadat Hasan Manto, Why I Write: Essays by Saadat Hasan Manto

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