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Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

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

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"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

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"Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present."

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"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."

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"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough."

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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

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"When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time."

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"Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent."

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"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."

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"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."

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"I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer."
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"An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused."
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"I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity."
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"Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words."
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"The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women."
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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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"It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn."
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"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."
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"To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power."
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"For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history."
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