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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. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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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. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head. ↗

— John Fahey

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The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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I don't know how many records I'm selling. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

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