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Tahar Ben Jelloun

"I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents."

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Donna Grant

"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."

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Donna Grant

"'Mean to' don't pick no cotton."

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Donna Grant

"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."

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Donna Grant

"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."

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Donna Grant

"Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?"

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Donna Grant

"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."

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Donna Grant

"Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing."

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Donna Grant

"We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters."

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Donna Grant

"Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing."

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Donna Grant

"Most of the people who have verbally asserted that 'there is no master of pronounciation' have intentionally made a claim and unintentionally made their claim believable. (It is 'pro-nun-ciation' not 'pro-noun-ciation'.)"

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

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

Religion

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

Knowledge

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents."

Language

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate."

People

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible."

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely."

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets."

Army

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