One Thousand And One Nights

Quotes

• “[M]y auntie, Tití, who was the reader in the family, gave me a picture book version of "The Arabian Nights," and I was s...”
• “Scheherazade...possessed courage, wit, and penetration, infinitely above her sex. She had read much, and had so admirabl...”
• “I'd like every single Arab to read One Thousand and One Nights. They [would] learn a lot from them, especially [because]...”
• “On the black road of life think not to findEither a friend or lover to your mind;If you must love, oh then, love solitud...”
• “Maslamah ibn Dinar said: "Each pleasure that does not forward the soul to God is not so much as a pleasure as a calamity...”
• “Hanan al-Shaykh, "Scheherazade: From Storytelling 'Slave' To 'First Feminist'" at NPR (9 June 2013)”
• “I hope that Allah will not make me immortal, for death is His greatest gift to any true believer.”
• “It is a book so vast that it is not necessary to have read it, for it is a part of our memory.”
• “Julia Alvarez, Interview, "By the Book: Julia Alvarez", The New York Times (11 April 2019)”
• “When I was aliveI was dust which was,But now I am dust in dustI am dust which never was.”
• “A library of books is the fairest garden in the world, and to walk there is an ecstasy.”
• “ODQ, 2nd ed. (1953) p. 14: "Who will change old lamps for new ones? New lamps for old?”
• “The Wazir of King Yunan and Rayyan the Doctor (tr. E. Powys Mathers, i, 1929)”
• “Isabel Allende compilation of interview questions, isabelallende.com (2014)”
• “The proverb says: "Each man envies, the strong openly, the weak in secret.”
• “The Tale of the Magic Book (tr. E. Powys Mathers, vii, 1929)”
• “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (tr. Anonymous, xi, 1721)”
• “Zummurud and Ali-Shar (tr. E. Powys Mathers, iii, 1929)”
• “King Umar al-Numan (tr. E. Powys Mathers, ii, 1929)”
• “Jorge Luis Borges, Seven Nights (1984), p. 57”
• “Frame story (tr. Jonathan Scott, i, 1811)”
• “Who'll change old lamps for new ones?”
• “Aladdin (tr. Anonymous, x, 1721)”