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“She says the lesson to learn is that the world is round, which means that if I run too fast I might end up chasing the very homeland I am running from.”
― Sefi Atta

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“Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.”
― Louis Menand

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“اعطتني القراءة عذرًا مقبولًا لعزلتي، بل ربما اعطت مغزىً لتلك العزلة المفروضة عليّ”
― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

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“A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.”
― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

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“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
― Joseph Brodsky

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