Imtiaz Dharker quotes
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“All night, my face next to your mouth, I hold my breath, listening to yours.”
-- Imtiaz DharkerSource : Imtiaz Dharker (2007). “The Terrorist at My Table”, p.156, Penguin Books India
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“A circus of stars, your dreams a trapeze, faces lift like mirrored moons.”
-- Imtiaz DharkerSource : Imtiaz Dharker (2007). “The Terrorist at My Table”, p.156, Penguin Books India
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“Some day your head won’t find my lap so easily. Trust is a habit you’ll soon break.”
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“I learn to love the thing that has to be erased, the thing I may not be allowed to keep, sand that runs away beneath my running feet.”
-- Imtiaz DharkerSource : Imtiaz Dharker (2009). “Leaving Fingerprints”, Bloodaxe Books Limited
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“Some day your head won’t find my lap so easily. Trust is a habit you’ll soon break.”
-- Imtiaz DharkerSource : Imtiaz Dharker (1988). “Purdah: And Other Poems”
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Source : A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Original Bliss”, p.74, Random House
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“Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.”
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“Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.”
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Source : Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”
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