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Quotes by Afghan Authors
"We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon."
"I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same."
"The national unity government will need to implement a program that brings all Iraqis together, builds a happy future for the people of Iraq, and gets Iraq to stand on its own feet."
"As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British."
"Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation."
"We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny."
"This project would not only open up venues of cooperation in the oil and gas sector between the member countries but also help bring the people of regional countries together."
"God says he will never be satisfied with the infidels. In terms of worldly affairs, America is very strong. Even if it were twice as strong or twice that, it could not be strong enough to defeat us. We are confident that no one can harm us if God is with us."
"It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair."
"The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act."
"The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts."
"The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people's children in their body for money."
"Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always."
"I won't stop caring about the world, even if it looks stupid."
"On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men, Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts."
"People shouldn't be ashamed of what they are. And it will help them, to gain self esteem and confidence."
"Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head."
"Misery and poverty of a nation is associated with the conscious of its people not leaders."
"She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor."
"If you are thinking of making everyone happy, you are going to be a great prostitute."
"Fame and recognition break all scandals, if I were a prostitute I would have chosen to be a famous one."
"Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence."
"Stories close the gap and reconcile between what we want life to be and how it actually is."
"Torturing innocents, murdering civilians and destroying public property; they are all the gifts we have been given by religion."
"Forget the beauty, comfort, love and enjoyment. You must to be enough tough on yourself to be strong on others."
"It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out."
"I don't know about black or white magic I just know one type and that is your magic."
"A lie with confidence is more powerful than a truth without it."
"To be acknowledged that we do not believe in their misleading notion and fallacy, today, tomorrow and forever even if it costs us our life. They have suffocated people for hundreds of years and if we don't stop them today no one else would do it tomorrow."
"Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well."
"Mother is fading for him, her face receding into shadows, her memory diminishing with each passing day, leaking like sand from a fist."
"Only those of us live for centuries that decided not to live in their short lives."
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