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Quote by Diana Abu-Jaber

“If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos.”

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Diana Abu-Jaber is an American author known for her profound insights into Middle Eastern culture and her rich literary works. Her writing often focuses on family, identity, and community, exploring the lives of Middle Eastern immigrants in the United States. more

“The Democratic Party represents the American brain, and the Republicans represent not the American heart, or soul, but the American gut. The argument between brain and bowel, everywhere else in the Free World, has been decided long ago in favor of brain. But Americans still - it still divides the nation, this question, here in America.”

World Heart Long Soul Party Brain Republican Argument Democratic Guts Democratic Party

Author:Martin Amis

“The egotism of people who are eminent without being in the least distinguished and somehow feeling that's their due - that seems to me to be a peculiarly English phenomenon.”

People Feelings Phenomenon Egotism

Author:Martin Amis

“Egotism exists everywhere, but it has a different flavor in England, where the tabloid culture goes much deeper. It's just the indulgence of vulgarity, the wallowing in vulgarity. As with everything English, there's a sort of irony to it. They write a great deal about these trivial people who have a certain eminence, always with a bit of, "Isn't it ridiculous that we are writing about this person?"”

People Writing Different Culture Ridiculous Irony Egotism Indulgence Vulgarity

Author:Martin Amis

“We have a huge institution that celebrates the undistinguished, an institution which is nearly as old as the Papists. It's been going on for millennia. What else is a monarchy but a series of ridiculously exalted figures who are not necessarily distinguished at all? In fact, they have a rather philistine tradition. So perhaps we are more vulnerable to it than other countries.”

Country Tradition Celebrate Vulnerable Monarchy

Author:Martin Amis