“Throughout my entire life, I have lived in the shadow of the dictators...” — Hisham Matar Quote

“Throughout my entire life, I have lived in the shadow of the dictatorship. It denied me safety and security.”

“There are moments, moments like this, when an abstract longing overcomes me, one made all the more violent by its lack of fixed purpose. The trick time plays is to lull us into the belief that everything lasts forever, and, although nothing does, we continue inside that dream. And, as in a dream, the shape of my days bear no relation to what I had, somehow and without knowing it, allowed myself to expect.”

“I've never thought of myself in terms of an identity. I'm always baffled when I encounter someone who gives the impression about being confident about a particular defined identity.”

“I sometimes wonder if I would have become a writer if what happened to my father hadn't happened.”

“I've always said - I've always said I'm not, by temperament, a romantic about revolutions or given to revolutions. I've always thought that they are not the ideal way to change.”

“All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own.”

“I think it is fair to say that I was denied my on-camera happy ending.”

“I think Michael Jordan is the GOAT because of the simple fact that he wasn't able to be denied.”

“Not one child should be denied food nor water. Not one child should suffer.”

“We must never forget the value of work because without it people are denied a sense of dignity and of community.”

“I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.”