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Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: french
Birth: December 1, 1944

Topics

Mother Words Universe Tongue Well

I don't have anybody living around me who has much of a sense of what I do. That's exactly what I like.

John Edgar Wideman

Me Living Sense Who Like Much

You ask 20 of your friends how English and American democracy came about. None of them would say that Anglicanism or Protestantism had anything to do with it. But it was crucial to it!

Democracy American Friends You Say

There is nothing likely to get you a bigger headline than attacking your own party.

You Party Nothing Own Bigger Get

I don't think good films have messages.

Good Think Messages Films

Each book develops a strong organic shape. And when that shape is complete, the book is complete. I don't know where the end is. I don't start at the beginning. It's like playing Tetris in my head in a very slow kind of way. All the shapes join up.

Beginning Start Book Strong Slow

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

Mind Thought Cry Rare Obvious Fact

Compassion knows that choosing the higher road in any situation is the most loving option for you.

Compassion Road You Loving Situation

I read a lot of science fiction and biography - these are my two favorite genres. My favorite science fiction writers are Hertling, Suarez, Gibson and Stephenson, but I enjoy many others. I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

Business Science Reading Enjoy Two

The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie.

Business Challenge Lie World Realize

I have a big affinity for the Coen Brothers.

Big Brothers Affinity Coen

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Thomas de Quincey

Alone Light Men Man Solitude World

From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling.

Time Beginning People Medicine Magic

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