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Zia Haider Rahman Quotes

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Zia Haider Rahman is a British writer of Bangladeshi origin. His debut novel In the Light Of What We Know in 2014 was published to critical acclaim.

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Also known as: In the Light Of What We Know, In the Light of What We Know

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"...Britain has a hugely inflated sense of self. ..."

Life can only be understood backward; the trouble is, it has to be lived forward.

In The Light of what We Know (2014)

Perhaps the elites run to a different beat of time.

In The Light of what We Know (2014)

"We shore up our prejudices with selected facts..."

In The Light of what We Know (2014)

'An exile is a refugee with a library!'

In The Light of what We Know (2014)

"...there is a virtue attached to intelligence, but lets suppose that we are all intelligent enough to know that intelligence is not a virtue; that the people who made the atom bomb were very intelligent, and that really virtue resides in how we conduct ourselves..."

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Zia Haider Rahman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.