Nadeem Aslam Quotes

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A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.

Nadeem Aslam
Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an end to for all eternity. Men may think a woman has no past- "you were born and then I married you"- but men are fools.

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To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remained unchanged there.

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On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step

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There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn't want to. Human beings and chains, it is the oldest acquaintanceship in the world.

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The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.

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All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.

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Pull a thread here and you'll find it's attached to the rest of the world.

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Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

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How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

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This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the heart but, pull thin, it would drape the entire world.

Nadeem Aslam