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Tahar Ben Jelloun

"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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"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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Akiroq Brost

"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."

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"I think being funny is not anyone's first choice."

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"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."

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Akiroq Brost

"I finished the movie a month ago in downtown Los Angeles. I had a lot of fun doing it."

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"Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun."

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Akiroq Brost

"Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?"

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"I have a lot of fun with guns, especially the M-16, but my favourite is my little .22. It fits nicely in the palm of your hand. I do limit myself to blanks."

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Akiroq Brost

"Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field."

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Akiroq Brost

"I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't fun. It's just a whole different thing these days."

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"I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me."

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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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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history."

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"There are very few great poets in the world."

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom."

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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
"I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter."

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it."

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

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world."

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