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Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

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Donna Grant

"The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote lights scattered overhead. I gasp as the last streak of fire dies on the horizon, and I comprehend it all too late. That crafty, dark night has swallowed my world whole."

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Donna Grant

"Dread of night. Dread of not-night."

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Donna Grant

"I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights."

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Donna Grant

"How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die."

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Donna Grant

"You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set's two hours long."

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Donna Grant

"The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night."

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Donna Grant

"I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena."

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Donna Grant

"We didn't let a night go by that we didn't play."

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Donna Grant

"I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters."

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Donna Grant

"I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again."

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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."

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

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself."

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