“المتحدث لا تتجلّى قريحته إلا بوجود متحدث متجلي القريحة معه: فإذا أردت أن ينطفئ المتحدّث, فأحضر إليه غبيًا يحاوره!”
― يوميات سراب عفان
― يوميات سراب عفان
“الفلسطينيون كلهم شعراء. بالفطرة. قد لا يكتبون شعرًا، ولكنهم شعراء، لأنهم عرفوا شيئين اثنين هامّين. جمال الطبيعة، والمأساة. ومن يجمع بين هذين، لا بد أن يكون شاعرًا.”
― السفينة
― السفينة
“As it happened, I was no longer interested in literature as a form of snobbery or even self-definition. I had no desire to prove that one book was better than another; in fact, if I read something I admired, I found myself increasingly disinclined to mention it at all. What I knew personally to be true had come to seem unrelated to the process of persuading others. I did not, any longer, want to persuade anyone of anything.”
― Outline
― Outline
“The final portrait is often furthest from the truth.”
― Columbine
― Columbine
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