Daoud Hari quotes

“The best way to bury your pain is to help others, and to lose yourself in that.”
-- Daoud Hari

Source : Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.64, Random House

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“You have to find a way to laugh a little bit each day despite everything, or your heart will simply run out of the joy that makes it go.”
-- Daoud Hari

Source : Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.90, Random House

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“Because of my schooling, my fate would always be a little different from my friends.”
-- Daoud Hari

Source : Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.66, Random House

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“You have to be stronger than your fears if you want to get anything done in this life.”
-- Daoud Hari

Source : Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.11, Random House

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“If the world allows the people of Darfur to be removed forever from their land and their way of life, then genocide will happen elsewhere because it will be seen as something that works. It must not be allowed to work. The people of Darfur need to go home now. I write this for them, and for that day, ... and for those still living who might yet have beautiful lives on the earth.”
-- Daoud Hari

Source : Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.10, Random House

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“What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?”
-- Daoud Hari

Source : Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.196, Penguin UK

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“To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”

“So, to praise others for their virtues - Can but encourage one's own efforts”

“I dream about speaking in big forums about issues that need to be spoken about. I dream about helping others who I know and love, helping them realize their dreams. I dream about being able to express myself through acting and writing, definitely. I dream about bringing more realism into the world. Sometimes I just feel like certain things are so glossed over and covered up and swept under the rug and I just want to bring them out.”

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“It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.”

“To justify God's ways to man.”

“I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.”

“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”

“You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.”

“It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.”

“She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.”