5 Quotes & Sayings By Abdulrazak Gurnah

"Abdulrazak Gurnah is a writer and translator. He was born in Tanzania and grew up in England and Nigeria, where he studied literature and law. He went on to study for his PhD in Creative Writing at the Goldsmiths' College in London. His work has been widely published in journals such as The New York Times Magazine, Granta, The London Review of Books, The New Yorker, and others."

Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That...
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Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour. Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses. Abdulrazak Gurnah
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I speak to maps. And sometimes they something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard of thing. Before maps, the world was limitless. It was maps that gave it shape and made it seem like territory, like something that could be possessed, not just laid waste and plundered. Maps made places on the edges of the imagination seem graspable and placable. Abdulrazak Gurnah
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That's the way life takes us, ' Elleke once said. 'It takes us like this, then it turns us over and takes us like that.' What she didn't say was that through it all we manage to cling to something that makes sense. Abdulrazak Gurnah