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Zia Haider Rahman quotes: Our choices are made, our will flexed, in the teeth of events that overwhelm us and devour us.

Our choices are made, our will flexed, in the teeth of events that overwhelm us and devour us.

Zia Haider Rahman quotes: destruction. Turning to God can save your life, but, in the process, it can annihilate your soul.

destruction. Turning to God can save your life, but, in the process, it can annihilate your soul.

Zia Haider Rahman quotes: What is the beginning of rage, the beginning of anger? Not dislike, but love.

What is the beginning of rage, the beginning of anger? Not dislike, but love.

Zia Haider Rahman quotes: 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?

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 quotes: Then, as now, I believe that the English use language to hide what they mean.

Then, as now, I believe that the English use language to hide what they mean.

Zia Haider Rahman quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I am too much of an imitator to be a true writer.

I am too much of an imitator to be a true writer.

Zia Haider Rahman quotes: 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.

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 quotes: That's another argument for writing: making something that outlasts you.

That's another argument for writing: making something that outlasts you.

Zia Haider Rahman quotes: An exile, said Zafar, is a refugee with a library.

An exile, said Zafar, is a refugee with a library.

Zia Haider Rahman quotes: Every man, he said, carries his own pyre.

Every man, he said, carries his own pyre.

Zia Haider Rahman quotes: It's always nice to learn a thing or two from a novel, don't you think?

It's always nice to learn a thing or two from a novel, don't you think?

Zia Haider Rahman quotes: Yes, they mean well, but the only good that an absence of malice guarantees is a clear conscience.

Yes, they mean well, but the only good that an absence of malice guarantees is a clear conscience.

Zia Haider Rahman quotes: How many senators have taken their conception of what America can do from what they've seen on the American movie screen?

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 quotes: Difficult questions can have simple answers.

Difficult questions can have simple answers.

Zia Haider Rahman quotes: that the truth is finer and that the only answers each of us hears are to the questions we are capable of asking.

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 quotes: Listening is hard, as my friend once said, because you run the risk of having to change the way you see the world.

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 quotes: We're not put on this earth to fuck around. We have to make something of our lives.

We're not put on this earth to fuck around. We have to make something of our lives.

Zia Haider Rahman quotes: Is that not the Promethean fable, that the fire stolen from the gods will light men their way even while it burns their hands?

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 quotes: Autobiography, we know, is flawed from the moment the nib of the pen touches the parchment.

Autobiography, we know, is flawed from the moment the nib of the pen touches the parchment.

Zia Haider Rahman quotes: When evil enters the world, do you think it comes with horns and cloven feet, billowing some foul stench?

When evil enters the world, do you think it comes with horns and cloven feet, billowing some foul stench?

Zia Haider Rahman quotes: Advisers were numberless in Kabul, like stray dogs in Mumbai.

Advisers were numberless in Kabul, like stray dogs in Mumbai.

Zia Haider Rahman quotes: It is no consolation to reflect that every cause itself is an effect, making the search for causes and reasons a fool's errand.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: If I had my time again, I'd believe in reincarnation.

If I had my time again, I'd believe in reincarnation.

Zia Haider Rahman quotes: You think people never say what they mean. The truth is, nine times out of ten what they say is all they mean.

You think people never say what they mean. The truth is, nine times out of ten what they say is all they mean.