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Whether you fall means nothing at all It's whether you GET UP It's whether you GET UP!

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For me, almost always, the answer was cake.

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If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you end up paying for that in the long run. You pay for it. . . with your homeland, or with your soul, or with your artistic vision.

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Dad says that everyone invented baklava. ” It occurs to me now to wonder what that means. Aunt Aya rolls her eyes. “Your father? He is the worst of the worst. He thinks he cooks and eats Arabic food but these walnuts were not grown from Jordanian earth and this butter was not made from Jordanian lambs. He is eating the shadow of a memory. He cooks to remember but the more he eats, the more he forgets.

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I honestly never intended food to occupy so much of my creative work. Food-writing often seems about to plummet straight into sentimentality. I think food can be dangerous to write about because if you don't manage to mediate it somehow, it can be the worst sort of greeting card.

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Love and prayer are intimately related.

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Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [. . . ] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.

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