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Zia Haider Rahman Quotes: I am too much of an imitator to be a true writer.
         

I am too much of an imitator to be a true writer.


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No sight better expresses the politics of aid, the dynamics of the West and the developing countries, than the image of children, happy or in need.



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Everything new is on the rim of our view, in the darkness, below the horizon, so that nothing new is visible but in the light of what we know.



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That’s another argument for writing: making something that outlasts you.



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When evil enters the world, do you think it comes with horns and cloven feet, billowing some foul stench?



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Then, as now, I believe that the English use language to hide what they mean.



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Our choices are made, our will flexed, in the teeth of events that overwhelm us and devour us.



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