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If an Egyptian cannot speak English, who is telling his story?

"Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives"

“I guess intentions are what matter. Sometimes to do the right thing, you have to do the wrong one first.”
He held up one finger. “ ‘If you can’t get the butter with a straight finger…’ ” Geeta smiled as he hooked his index finger. “ ‘…then use a crooked one.’ ”

I was examining: the silence of the street in the early afternoon, the light, the atmosphere of confession. In any case it was the first time I knew beautiful. Had imagined it for myself. Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do

“And you also know things are real when they can be lost.”

Here am I on the floor, he thought. Is life so much worse here than it would be on the bed, or even in a totally different location? No, life is exactly the same. Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head.