Ahdaf Soueif quotes

Maybe not a hydra because that's really, really nasty. I think there was almost a false head: we ripped open the packaging and now we're faced with the real thing that's there in the box... (Ahdaf Soueif)

...Most people are content to live their lives within prescribed and personal boundaries. But one of the points of artists surely is that they live outside their skin. That they're connected. That they hurt with the hurt of their fellow humans. How, then, can they disengage? How can you – if your task, if your gift, is narrative – absent yourself from the great narrative of the world?...

Ahdaf Soueif

Ahdaf Soueif

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Occupation: Egyptian Novelist
Born: March 23, 1950
Quotes count: 2
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