Shusha Guppy quotes
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“The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a friend,' and 'I don't like you' simply means 'I don't have you as a friend.”
-- Shusha GuppySource : Shusha Guppy (2004). “The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood”, p.212, Tauris Parke Paperbacks
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“in the traditional family structure of Persia ... one simply cannot discard close relatives just because one does not like them; rather one has to accommodate them, make allowances and accept them, like misfortune.”
-- Shusha GuppySource : Shusha Guppy (2004). “Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood”, p.38, Tauris Parke Paperbacks
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“Of all musical instruments the human voice is the most beautiful, for it is made by God.”
-- Shusha GuppySource : Shusha Guppy (2004). “The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood”, p.148, Tauris Parke Paperbacks
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“It is very important not to become hard. The artist must always have one skin too few in comparison to other people, so you feel the slightest wind.”
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Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.17, Lulu.com
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“Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.”
Source : Benjamin Lee Whorf, John Bissell Carroll (1964). “Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf”, p.61, MIT Press
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“The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second “you.”
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