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Tahar Ben Jelloun

"This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue."

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Donna Grant

"Big Brother is watching you."

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Donna Grant

"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

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Donna Grant

"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

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Donna Grant

"Blessed is the womb that born you."

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Donna Grant

"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

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Donna Grant

"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."

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Donna Grant

"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

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Donna Grant

"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

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Donna Grant

"Children are angels."

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Donna Grant

"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl."

Friendship

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"In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds."

Habit

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer."

Night

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"I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity."

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time."

Time

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private."

Religion

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet."

Language

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave."

Work

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"The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge."

Knowledge

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"I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take."

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