Ghassan Kanafani
1936 - 1972
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Quotes
Biography
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian writer, journalist, and a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He is best known for his works of fiction that often deal with the Palestinian experience of dispossession and exile. Kanafani's writing is characterized by its vivid descriptions, powerful storytelling, and strong political themes. Tragically, he was assassinated in 1972 by a car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon.
Famous Quotes (5)
1
My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and I can categorically state that I became politically committed because I am a novelist, not the opposite.
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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be an apprenticeship for freedom.
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Literature always reflects the hopes, dreams, and aspirations of a nation or an individual.
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Writing becomes an act of choosing, a sequence of acts, an uncertain journey. One knows, in writing, that every word is a first step, a lesson in humility.
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To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.