Ghassan Kanafani quotes
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“My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and I can categorically state that I became politically committed because I am a novelist, not the opposite.”
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“The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.”
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“Everything in this world can be robbed and stolen, except one thing; this one thing is the love that emanates from a human being towards a solid commitment to a conviction or cause.”
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“You have something in this world, so stand for it.”
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“If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.”
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“Imperialism has layed its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you damage it, and you serve the World Revolution.”
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“بالدم نكتب Ù„Ùلسطين We write with the blood for Palestine”
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“Do not believe that man grows. No: he is born suddenly-a word, in a moment, penetrates his heart to a new throb. One scene can hurl him down from the ceiling of childhood on to the ruggedness of the road.”
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“بالدم نكتب لفلسطين We write with the blood for Palestine”
-- Ghassan Kanafani
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“Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age”
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“A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.”
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“Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.”
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“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.”
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Source : "The First World War". Book by A. J. P. Taylor , p. 165, 1963.
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