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" My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Sensibility
Who
Toward
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" My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible. "
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" New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate. "
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" Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever. "
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" Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world. "
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" We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom. "
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" We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side. "
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" People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work. "
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" It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it. "
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" In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away. "
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Take
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" We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world. "
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" I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter. "
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Life
Mars
" I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity. "
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Change
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" There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals. "
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Arab
Gulf
Between
" Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is. "
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Other
Than
Egypt
" I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take. "
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I Can
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" I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile. "
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Enjoy
Immigrants
" Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private. "
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Stay
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" The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself. "
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Doubt
Thought
Man
" Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price. "
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Situation
Keep Going
" To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power. "
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Power
Country
Hold
" It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn. "
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Our
Turn
Own
" Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. "
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Day
Every Day
" I am a Moroccan writer of French expression. "
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I Am
Writer
French
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" I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet. "
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" I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents. "
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Different
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" A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely. "
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" At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets. "
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