Omar Dashty

“How can an entire nation endure so many long silences and so many unspoken words?”
― Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, The Colonel

“sharab peene de masjid mein beth kar,
Yaa woh jagha bata jahan Khuda nahin..”
― Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

“What is your advice to young writers?”
“Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.”
― Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music

“We cannot explain the choices that history makes, but we can say something very important about them: history’s choices are not made for the benefit of humans. There is absolutely no proof that human well-being inevitably improves as history rolls along.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind