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

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" 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. "

" In 2006, I published my first novel, 'In the Country of Men.' The publication of the book gave me a bigger platform to speak about my father's abduction and Libya's human-rights record. "

" My work is my shelter, particularly in these moments when things are happening fast. "

" 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. "

" Over the centuries, close-knit tribes have played an important part in the cohesion of Libyan society. "

" For an overwhelming majority of my life, my country has been a source of pain, fear, and embarrassment. "

" When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope. "

" Living in hope is a really terrible thing. "

" Ivan Turgenev's novella 'First Love' is one of the most perfect things ever written. "

" The Qaddafis, father and sons, speak the grammar of dictatorship: threats and bribery. "

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

" It is easy to underestimate the demands of an open heart. "

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

" In the same way that Egypt and Libya conspired to 'disappear' my father and silence writers such as Idris Ali, they made me, too, to a far lesser extent, feel punished for speaking out. "

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

" Turgenev's achievement lies in how he succeeded, in spite of himself, his country, and his time, in exempting his work from public duty. This has given it that unnameable quality that makes every sentence true, every silence trustworthy. "

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

" 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 hope and pray that I'll be one of those fortunate people who have many, many books to write. I don't begrudge writing. I love the whole thing! "

" My parents were fairly laid-back, but there were certain things about which they were very strict. My brother and I were told never to turn away a person in need. And it didn't matter what we thought of their motives, whether they were truly in need or not. "

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

" 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. "

" Dreams have consequences. "

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

" One of the reasons why Gadafy's dictatorship has managed to remain in power for so long is not just because it has shown itself to be able to exact a great deal of violence, both psychological and physical, on its people, but because it has been very successful at imposing a narrative, a story. "

" I think my generation's inability to speak in absolute terms when it comes to politics is a very positive thing; it's made us more nuanced, made us more complex. "

" We need a father to rage against. "

" 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. "