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An Age of Madness

by David Maine (Goodreads Author)

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“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
― Philip Levine

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“Have you noticed that when men want freedom, the conversation is about the nature of action, violence or non-violence? But when women want freedom, the conversation is about the nature of women, natural or unnatural?”
― Uzma Aslam Khan, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali

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“My faith is what they bury when they force me to expose it.”
― Uzma Aslam Khan, The Geometry of God

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“The opposite of peace is not war. The opposite of peace is inertia.”
― Uzma Aslam Khan, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali

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“Not all of us are horrid,’ he told her once. ‘Not all of us think of all Indians as our subjects.’ All Indians? Us? She did not know how to explain that she had never trusted these words and did not know what was worse, being a part of all or not, as it seemed the decision had never been hers to make. Nor did she know how to explain that it was not a question of what one or two might think. It had more to do with the patterns inherited, the lies inhabited, though she could not find the words, and so she said nothing.”
― Uzma Aslam Khan, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali

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