Shusha Guppy Quotes

• It is very important not to become hard. The artist must always have one skin too few in comparison to other people, so you feel the slightest wind.

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  Artist   Wind   People  

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• The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a friend,' and 'I don't like you' simply means 'I don't have you as a friend.

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  Love   Mean   Verbs  

  Shusha Guppy (2004). “The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood”, p.212, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

  1978

• in the traditional family structure of Persia ... one simply cannot discard close relatives just because one does not like them; rather one has to accommodate them, make allowances and accept them, like misfortune.

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  Family   Middle East   Doe  

  Shusha Guppy (2004). “Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood”, p.38, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• Of all musical instruments the human voice is the most beautiful, for it is made by God.

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  Beautiful   Voice   Musical  

  Shusha Guppy (2004). “The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood”, p.148, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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