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Tag Archives: quotes
The Pillow And The Baseball Bat
I love the classics. I read most of them decades ago. But I don’t think I can read those same books again with the same enthusiasm and eagerness I had for them years ago. And the reason is not because … Continue reading
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Tagged art, attention, author, baseball, blog, book, books, creative writing, dreams, emotion, feelings, fiction, humor, ideas, imagination, joy, life, literature, love, music, novel, people, poetry, publishing, quotes, racing, Random, reading, scene, story, style, thoughts, time, tweet, words, work, write, writer, writing
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“What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?”
When I was a little girl, I wanted to become a teacher so badly. Every day after school I used to come home, wear my mom’s high heel shoes, arrange my dolls on my bed and pretend I was their … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, autumn, blue, books, children, death, Dubai, e-book, education, family, green, Henry James, hero, life, literature, love, Middle East, mother, novel, old, opportunities, orange, pain, parents, purple, quotes, reading, season, signs, sorrow, story, student, teacher, teenagers, Toni Morisson, world, writing, yellow
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It Was Just The Beginning
Mother’s day, May 8th 2011, Montreal. I am having coffee with my daughter. It is a beautiful day outside, sunny and warm. At last after what seemed like an endless cold and wet winter, we are able to go out … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, AUB, Beirut, books, Canada, children, country, e-book, East, education, Ernest Hemingway, family, father, graduation, hero, Jean Paul Sartre, killed, Lebanon, life, literature, Middle East, Montreal, mother, mother's day, novel, opportunities, parents, quotes, reader, reading, signs, sniper, story, teenagers, University, West, world, writing
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Am I Missing Something?
I was born and raised in Lebanon and lived much of my life in Dubai. In 2006, when we moved to Canada, I vowed that I was not going to listen or watch news about the Middle East because it … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Amazon, Amazon UK, books, Canada, children, Dubai, e-book, education, Egypt, English, experience, family, father, French, journalist, language, Lebanon, Libya, life, literature, Middle East, Montreal, mother, Norman Mailer, opportunities, parents, Quebec, quotes, reader, reading, school, school boards, signs, story, teenagers, world, writing
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Have You Ever?
Have you ever experienced a moment when a simple yes or no would have made a difference in your life and yet for some unknown reason you have not been able to say it? And that single word has cost … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, book, books, children, death, dream, e-book, editor, experience, family, father, journalist, Lebanon, library, life, literature, love, Middle East, Mitch Albom, mother, Nicolas Sparks, opportunities, Oscar Wilde, parents, promises, quotes, reader, reading, reporter, signs, story, teacher, tomorrow, Twitter, women, words, writer, writing
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Is It Too Much To Ask?
Chance had it that I was born and raised in Lebanon, hence I am a Lebanese citizen and as such carry a Lebanese passport, even though I am Armenian by origin. Both my parents came to Lebanon as refugees from … Continue reading
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Tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Amazon, April, Armenian, children, civil war, Ernest Hemingway, experience, family, father, genocide, grandparents, holocaust, horror, Ivory Coast, Jews, journalist, Lebanon, library, literature, Middle East, Montreal, mother, Nazi, publishers, quotes, reader, reading, refugees, reporter, Robert Fisk, signs, story, suffering, torture, Turkey, women, writer, writing
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Confusion
Dalia stepped inside and stood for a moment to look around. She spotted Shadi not far away from her. Oh no, not tonight she thought. She wanted to turn back but it was too late. He was already walking towards … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, artist, book, Canada, chichikir, children, civil war, confusion, discount, dream, Dubai, e-book, editor, Exhibition, experience, family, journalist, Libya, literature, love, Middle East, Montreal, Museum, painting, promotion, publishers, quotes, reader, reading, reporter, signs, story, teacher, Twitter, uprising, women, writer, writing
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Honestly!
The Gazette Montreal, in one of the early April issues, had published the following quote by Angela Schwindt as its ‘Quote of the day’: While we try to teach our children all about life our children teach us what life … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, American, Angela Shwindt, April, book, Canada, chichikir, children, civil war, discount, dream, Dubai, e-book, editor, experience, family, journalist, libel, library, literature, Middle East, Montreal, promotion, publishers, quotes, Ray Bradbury, reader, reading, reporter, signs, story, teacher, Twitter, uprising, William Saroyan, women, writer, writing
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Are You A Fan Too
In one of my books on writing, I read that many people go through quotes from famous authors, and read interview after interview with successful writers in the hope that the success will somehow rub off on them, that they … Continue reading →