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Manto: Selected Stories

by Saadat Hasan Manto

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Sep 25, 2016 04:32AM

“Literature and film in my opinion are like saloons where bottles have no labels. I want to taste each one myself and figure out which is what. If I'm denied this by labelling, then my entertainment is considerably lessened.”
― Saadat Hasan Manto, Why I Write: Essays by Saadat Hasan Manto

tags: artistic-expression, film, literature

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“Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: aggravating, annoy, annoying, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, aplomb, assertive, assertiveness, assured, at-ease, bashful, bashfulness, boldness, bothersome, can-do, confident, coolheaded, courage, coyness, cursed, demureness, diffidence, diffident, embarrassed, embarrassment, exasperating, extrovert, extroverted, farouche, funny, galling, girl, girls, hilarious, humor, humorous, humour, imperturbable, infuriating, inhibited, insecure, introversion, introvert, introverted, irksome, irritate, irritating, irritation, joke, jokes, lack-of-confidence, levelheaded, maddening, man, men, mettle, mousiness, mousy, nerve, nervous, nettlesome, obnoxious, pesky, phlegm, phlegmatic, poise, poised, positive, quotations, quotes, repressed, reserve, reserved, reservedness, reticence, reticent, retiring, satire, self-assurance, self-assured, self-confidence, self-confident, self-conscious, self-consciousness, self-effacing, self-possessed, self-possession, self-reliant, sheepish, sheepishness, shy, shyness, timid, timidity, timidness, timorous, timorousness, tiresome, together, troublesome, trying, unconfident, unperturbed, unruffled, vexatious, vexing, withdrawn

40 likes

“Half of life is lost in charming others.
The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others.
Leave this play. You have played enough.”
― Rumi

tags: anxiety, psychology, social-commentary

76 likes

“We are living in a generation where people ‘in love’ are free to touch each other’s private parts but are not allowed to touch each other’s phones because they are private.”
― Robert Mugabe

tags: behavior, behaviour, changes-in-time, generation, generations, love, misplaced-priorities, misplaced-priority, mobile-phones, people, phone, privacy, private, private-parts, relationships, time-changes, trust

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“Nothing new or innovative is created without a stretch of the imagination. Reach your goals by reaching for the sky with some brain stretches of the imagination every day.”
― Robert Mugabe , Our war of liberation: Speeches, articles, interviews, 1976-1979

tags: humor

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