Nuruddin Farah Quotes

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That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.

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She wondered then if she had ever been on the right track. She had been reticent all her life, because it turned out that her opinions were different from what others expected. 'That proves either that I am an exceptional idiot, or the reverse.

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You exist, you think, the way the heavenly bodies exist, for although one does not extend one's fingers and point at the heavens, one knows, yes that's the word, one knows that that is not the heavens. Unless... unless there are, in a sense, as many heavens as there are thinking beings; unless there are as many heavens as there are pointing fingers.

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Overwhelmed as I am with the magnitude of the crisis, I say this: Somalia is an open sore, a wound gaping as wide as a gate on broken hinges, a mouth toothless and without a tongue, ugly in the extreme, cavernous, tomblike.

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Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.

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Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.

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Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.

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Annoy a child and you'll discover the adult in him. Please an adult with gifts and the child therein re-emerges.

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