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Hisham Matar Quotes

American - Writer | 1970 -

Great writing fills me with hopeful enthusiasm and never envy.

Great Me Writing Enthusiasm Envy

I lost my father when I was 19, so the majority of my life has been under this cloud, and I have been full of the intention to find out what happened.

Life Father My Life Cloud Intention

I used to believe that it was not possible to lose someone I loved without sensing it somehow, without feeling something shift. But it's not true. People can die, sometimes the closest people to us, without us noticing a thing.

People Believe Loved Someone Die

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

Me More Never Seem Been Interested

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

Horse Sometimes Used Sense Rider

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.

Change Romantic Thought Said Way

My father, the political dissident Jaballa Matar, disappeared from his home in Cairo in March 1990.

Father Home Political March His

My family settled in Cairo in 1980. I was nine. I missed Libya terribly, but I also took to Cairo. I perfected the accent. People assumed I was Egyptian.

Family People Missed Accent Nine

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.

Brother Parents Thought Person Never

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.

Value People Believe Think Facts

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.

Positive Politics Think Generation

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.

Hope Time Long You Long Time Living

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