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"Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another."
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"I don't know why everyoneis still trying to find out whether heaven and hell exist.Why do we need more evidence?They exist here on this very Earth.Heaven is standing atop Mount Qasiounoverlooking the Damascene sightswith the wind carrying Qabbani'sdulcet words all around you.And hell is only four hours away in Aleppo where children's cries drown out the explosions of mortar bombsuntil they lose their voice,their families, and their limbs.Yes, hell certainly does existright now, at this moment,as I pen this poem. And all we're doingto extinguish this hellfireis sighing, shrugging, liking, and sharing.Tell me: what exactly does that makeus? Are we any better than the gatekeepers of hell?"
"Even the world's greatest actor cannot fake an erection."
"As soon as I sat down across from her, she ordered me to put the entire contents of my pants pockets on the table. I did as I was told, saying nothing. My reality seemed to have left me and was now wandering around nearby. I hope it can find me, I thought."
"If you desire to be financially wealthy but don't know how to invest time, then you are just dreaming."
"You're here, I continued. "At least you look as if you're here. But maybe you aren't. Maybe it's just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you've hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys."
"Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men."
"PDR: Persons of Dubious Reality; refugees from the collective consciousness. Uninvited visitors who have fallen through the grating that divides the real, from the written. They arrive with their actions hardwired due to their repetitious existence and the older and more basic they are, the more rigidly they stick to them. Characters from cautionary tales are particularly mindless; they do what they do because it's what they've always done.And it's our job to stop them."
"It doesn't matter how green a blade of grass is expected to be, when it's already smashed beneath the feet."
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"This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination."
"My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy."
"Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight."
"We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that."
"I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized."
"A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale."
"We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq."
"As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference."
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