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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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"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
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"Fun is never gone because life is fun."
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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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"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."
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"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."
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"Working is hard and distracts from having fun."
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"Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something."
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"Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening."
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"The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let's talk about that in a few months."
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"I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it."
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"I am a Moroccan writer of French expression."
Expression
"For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history."
History
"Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl."
Friendship
"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
"I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer."
Night
"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."
Change
"The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings."
Mistake
"I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context."
Thought
"In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time."
Time
"Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private."
Religion
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