Tayeb Salih quotes
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“Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life...”
-- Tayeb SalihSource : Tayeb Salih (1991). “Season of Migration to the North”, p.119, Heinemann
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“I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was transformed into a sensation of wakefulness.”
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“Everyone starts at the beginning of the road, and the world is in an endless state of childhood.”
-- Tayeb SalihSource : Tayeb Salih (1991). “Season of Migration to the North”, p.88, Heinemann
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“I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to ripen and bear fruit. There are many horizons that must be visited, fruit that must be plucked, books read, and white pages in the scrolls of life to be inscribed with vivid sentences in a bold hand.”
-- Tayeb SalihSource : Tayeb Salih (1991). “Season of Migration to the North”, p.5, Heinemann
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“I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms.”
-- Tayeb SalihSource : "Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih dies aged 80" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2009.
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“I am no Othello, Othello was a lie.”
-- Tayeb SalihSource : Tayeb Salih (1991). “Season of Migration to the North”, p.95, Heinemann
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Source : "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.
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Source : Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley”, p.152
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Source : Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian Theology”, p.62
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Source : Adam Gidwitz (2010). “A Tale Dark and Grimm”, p.26, Penguin
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Source : Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”
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