But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
KHALED HOSSEINII want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.
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I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either intended or even understood.
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He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.
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There is a way to be good again.
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Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.
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A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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