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" I am terribly interested in the paragraph: the paragraph as an object, the construction, and the possibilities of what a paragraph can do. "

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" As a young boy in Libya, it was hard to escape the conclusion that the women were the most feeling and most functional part of society. "

" From my family alone, Qaddafi had imprisoned five men. "

" I don't believe people are interested in dates and facts. I don't think it is interesting to say what it is to be this person or that, but I do believe it is entertaining and perhaps even of value to express how it is to be that person. "

" It is evident that Qaddafi is mentally unwell. Like Richard III, he has barricaded himself within lies. "

" The Arab Spring, with all of its failings and failures, exposed the lie that if we are to live, then we must live as slaves. It was an attempt to undermine not only the orthodoxy of dictatorship but also an international political orthodoxy where every activity must be approved by the profit logic of the 'ledger.' "

" I don't remember a time when words were not dangerous. "

" There is a tendency to over-exaggerate and over-romanticise the place of a writer in a revolution. That bothers me. I think it's inappropriate. "

" Gaddafi tried to give a masterclass to men like the Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad, on how to crush a civilian uprising. "

" Great writing fills me with hopeful enthusiasm and never envy. "

" A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build. "

" As part of the ritual of becoming a man, my maternal uncle, a judge, and his four sons, each older than me, took me deer hunting. "

" I've never been particularly interested in genre distinctions. They seem to me more useful to a librarian than to a writer. "

" We got rid of Muammar Gaddafi. I never thought I would be able to write these words. "

" Language is not just a code; you are writing into its history, into its tides. "

" When I'm writing, my mood is very good - and I love life. "

" Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination. "

" Being my father's son is a kind of privilege. "

" In the end, madness is worse than injustice, and justice far sweeter than freedom. "

" Making something of loss is, on some level, satisfying. "

" I used to be a keen rider. Sometimes I could sense what a horse liked or preferred to do. "

" Audacity, hope, courage - the Libyans have these in abundance. But all those boring little things - like organization, building a committee - is hard; making decisions and moving ahead is hard. "

" Gaddafi's ability to have survived so long rests on his convenient position in not being committed to a single ideology and his use of violence in such a theatrical way. "

" I've always said - I've always said I'm not, by temperament, a romantic about revolutions or given to revolutions. I've always thought that they are not the ideal way to change. "

" Civil war is a national crisis and also a private trauma: We suffer it collectively and in isolation. "

" We need a father to rage against. "

" To be okay with not knowing is a sign of a mature person and a mature society. "

" I am, by instinct, wary of revolutions. The gathering of the masses fills me with trepidation. "

" My father believed in armed struggle. "

" One of the dark truths about dictators - and it applies to Gaddafi - is that on some level, they love their people. But it is a strange love. It says, 'I love you for me; I don't love you for you.' That rhymes with a certain kind of Libyan father who was always certain about what was good for those around him. Those fathers lose in the end. "