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Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous. Ameen Rihani
Value Deficiencies Indeed States Futile Would Would-Be Various Purpose Individuals Import Underlying Without Always Sublime Impulse Forms Them Working
The most important in the history of nations and individuals was once the most trivial, and vice versa. The plebeian, who is called today the 'man in the street,' can never see and understand the significance of the hidden seed of things, which in time must develop or die. Ameen Rihani
Today Time History Man Important Vice Versa Once Hidden Significance Must See Seed Trivial Never Develop Individuals Most Understand Versa Die Nations The History Of The Most Important Vice Which Who Street Things
Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised. Ameen Rihani
Character Little Things First Our Self Sure Reveal Real Truly Trumpet Traits Essential Real Self Which Little Themselves Things Pose
Old Arabic books, printed in Bulaq, generally have a broad margin wherein a separate work, independent of the text, adds gloom to the page. Ameen Rihani
Work Old Broad Books Adds Independent Arabic Generally Gloom Printed Text Wherein Separate Page Margin
Society may be likened to a rod, which only a just government can balance properly. Ameen Rihani
Government Balance Society Properly Only Rod May Just Which
Bolshevism is the other end of Czarism. Ameen Rihani
Other End Bolshevism
In a true democracy is the cure for most of our social and political ills, but a few of them must remain to keep us going. Ameen Rihani
Democracy Political Few Our Must Remain True Most Cure Going Social Them Us Ills Keep
Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians. Ameen Rihani
Revolution Politicians White Visionaries Poets Bled Glorified Intellectuals Sanctified
All things, good and evil, come out, it seems, of the East. The Illuminati, like the Ismailites, dealt in allegories; and like the Mazdakites, they played with fire. Ameen Rihani
Good Good And Evil Evil Fire East Out All Things Seems Come Like Dealt Things Played
An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted. Ameen Rihani
Time People Exhausted Nation Sense Heritage Those Above Only Small He True Ideal Idealist Primitive Message However His Articulate Same Them Races Even Below
Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind. Ameen Rihani
Truth Fashion Day Great History Age Mind Year Our Recognize Temper Following Poets Prophets Seldom Priests True Like Also Repeats Itself Artists Fancy Span Turn Us Seasons Slant Garments Present
I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner. Amelie Nothomb
God Thought Winner Become Goddess President Would Nobel Nobel Prize Prize Maybe
I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work. Amelie Nothomb
Work First Someone Instinct Always Lot Movement Either Straight Noticed Who Works Away Ever
More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. Amelie Nothomb
You Fine More More And More Come Know Understand Very Where
I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write. Amelie Nothomb
Time Hungry Write Very Need
A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas. Aminatta Forna
Good Dilemmas Good Place Various Hospital Place Set
Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained. Aminatta Forna
Word Journalist Guess Writers Counts Know Most Go Ingrained Used
Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they bring me into worlds that I did not previously know. And that, as a writer, is what I try to create. Aminatta Forna
Me Try Increasingly Worlds Those Write Writer Writers Outside Know Most Because Did Center Interested Us Create Who Bring
What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that. Aminatta Forna
War Country Think Extraordinary Would Would-Be About Write Writer Had Ultimately Want Happened
Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative. Aminatta Forna
Political First Tell Through Narrative First-Person Historical Person Personal Story Grand
I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it. Aminatta Forna
Love Memory Theatre Surgeon Spent Temporarily Weeks Operating Became Loved Watching Two Two Weeks
No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories. Aminatta Forna
Work Time History You Memories Age Yourself Past Sense Down Our Says Ancient Out No-One Make Trying Eight Happened Far Many Ever Start Players By The Time
Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman who owns a coffee plantation! When you are talking about a woman writer coming from a hot country, there's a complete assumption that she is writing about her own life. Aminatta Forna
Life You Woman Writing Coffee Country Own Assumption Complete Everyone Project Sierra Sierra Leone Crop About Writer Hot Wrote She Talking Coming Owns Plantation Who Her Thinks
I'm a doctor's daughter. I'm not squeamish at all. Aminatta Forna
Doctor Daughter
Each employed immigrant has his or her place of work. It is only the taxi driver, forever moving on wheels, who occupies no fixed space. He represents the immigrant condition. Amitava Kumar
Work Moving On Space Immigrant Only Driver He Employed Occupies His Condition Forever Fixed Wheels Represents Place Moving Taxi Taxi Driver Who Each Her
Mistaken identity, of course, has been the province of much postcolonial fiction. An important feature of this writing is the manner in which misrecognition has haunted all cognition. Amitava Kumar
Writing Important Has-Been Haunted Feature Identity Mistaken Course Been Province Fiction Which Manner Much Cognition
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