Who is the most important person in the world? You might say the president of America, or a religious leader followed by many people. Or perhaps Oprah, Jennifer Lopez or the Queen of England. The most important person in the world is you! The proof is easy: you live as no one has ever lived […]
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I said to my wife: "How about going out to work?" She shouted at me: "You greedy man! You'd sell your honour for a bit more money!" I said: "Of course not… I don't want you to be a dancer… be a teacher, or even work for a charity, and keep all the money for […]
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The day my uncle married me to his daughter, he sat haggling with me over her price… sorry, her dowry… When I talked to him about building a home together, he demanded a ready-made house, fully furnished. I talked about starting our life; he talked about my death and who would inherit from me. I […]
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Once upon a time there was a monkey, a little one, smaller than a chimpanzee. It was a performing monkey, the kind that does acrobatics to draw a crowd, and its owner had taught it to pick pockets. Whenever people gathered to watch, the monkey robbed them when they weren't looking. One day there was […]
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One day my uncle called me in and began a long lecture about life, commitment, family and how he would soon die. As I had heard this lecture a thousand times, I pretended to listen carefully, until he reached a new sentence: "Fattoumeh… a lovely girl…" A waterfall of cold sweat washed over me, and […]
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