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Our choices are made, our will flexed, in the teeth of events that overwhelm us and devour us.
— Zia Haider Rahman
Womb? ... I mean ... does your lineage
— Roland Merullo
We must passionately learn, unlearn and relearn.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
destruction. Turning to God can save your life, but, in the process, it can annihilate your soul.
— Zia Haider Rahman
Foolish people inflict pain upon them self which is worse than what an enemy can bring upon.
— Thiruvalluvar
It's not the sort of night for bed, anyhow.
— Kenneth Grahame
The wounded, the incomplete, the unbalanced, the malfunctioning, the ill seek each other out: like attracted to like.
— William Boyd
It's always nice to learn a thing or two from a novel, don't you think?
— Zia Haider Rahman
Yes, they mean well, but the only good that an absence of malice guarantees is a clear conscience.
— Zia Haider Rahman
When you're alone is when you can count your friends.
— Stephen Richards
Every man, he said, carries his own pyre.
— Zia Haider Rahman
one cannot legislate, dictate, or veto the laws of physics, and politics has no place in technical decisions. The
— Allan J. McDonald
An exile, said Zafar, is a refugee with a library.
— Zia Haider Rahman
[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.
— John Lewis
That's another argument for writing: making something that outlasts you.
— Zia Haider Rahman
We take much for granted, much that is granted by others, and we're told to do as we're told, and we agree. And we must agree.
— Zia Haider Rahman
Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don't we secretly clasp each other's hands?
— Bruno Schulz
I am too much of an imitator to be a true writer.
— Zia Haider Rahman
Everything new is on the rim of our view, in the darkness, below the horizon, so that nothing new is visible but in the light of what we know.
— Zia Haider Rahman
Then, as now, I believe that the English use language to hide what they mean.
— Zia Haider Rahman
This is a miserable country, Zafar. I don't need to explain that to you. It needs help. Isn't it that simple?
Is anything that simple? — Zia Haider Rahman
Is anything that simple? — Zia Haider Rahman
When evil enters the world, do you think it comes with horns and cloven feet, billowing some foul stench?
— Zia Haider Rahman
People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.
— Mason Cooley
How many senators have taken their conception of what America can do from what they've seen on the American movie screen?
— Zia Haider Rahman
You think people never say what they mean. The truth is, nine times out of ten what they say is all they mean.
— Zia Haider Rahman
If I had my time again, I'd believe in reincarnation.
— Zia Haider Rahman
Students are very engaged by the issues, and it's not surprising because food choices are one of the few powers a child has.
— Michael Pollan
No sight better expresses the politics of aid, the dynamics of the West and the developing countries, than the image of children, happy or in need.
— Zia Haider Rahman
It is no consolation to reflect that every cause itself is an effect, making the search for causes and reasons a fool's errand.
— Zia Haider Rahman
Advisers were numberless in Kabul, like stray dogs in Mumbai.
— Zia Haider Rahman
No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God.
— Andrew Murray
Autobiography, we know, is flawed from the moment the nib of the pen touches the parchment.
— Zia Haider Rahman
Is that not the Promethean fable, that the fire stolen from the gods will light men their way even while it burns their hands?
— Zia Haider Rahman
We're not put on this earth to fuck around. We have to make something of our lives.
— Zia Haider Rahman
Listening is hard, as my friend once said, because you run the risk of having to change the way you see the world.
— Zia Haider Rahman
that the truth is finer and that the only answers each of us hears are to the questions we are capable of asking.
— Zia Haider Rahman
Difficult questions can have simple answers.
— Zia Haider Rahman
What is the beginning of rage, the beginning of anger? Not dislike, but love.
— Zia Haider Rahman