I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end its lack of pretension gives it its own sort of beauty.
Saadat Hasan MantoIf you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth
Saadat Hasan MantoHindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice โฆ slave of religious fanaticism โฆ slave of barbarity and inhumanity.
Saadat Hasan MantoIf a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human emotion?...Is love incompelete without it?...Is love the name of physical excersize ?
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