Saadat Hasan Manto Professions : Film writer Born : May 11, 1912 Died : January 18, 1955 Browse All Authors Top 10 quotes by Saadat Hasan Manto If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don't even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that's the job of dressmakers. Saadat Hasan Manto clothes trying jobs Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice … slave of religious fanaticism … slave of barbarity and inhumanity. Saadat Hasan Manto independent religious country If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth Saadat Hasan Manto ifs stories dirty If 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 ? Saadat Hasan Manto his-love names men I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together. Saadat Hasan Manto together forever feels But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether among the beautiful or the ugly, whether among the crude or refined, love is always just love. There's no difference. Saadat Hasan Manto summer winter beautiful Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Here lies Saadat Hasan Manto and with him lie buried all the secrets and mysteries of the art of short-story writing.... Under tons of earth he lies, still wondering who among the two is greater short-story writer: God or He. Saadat Hasan Manto writing lying art ...and it is also possible, that Saadat Hasan dies, but Manto remains alive. Saadat Hasan Manto remains dies alive Some people kiss as if they were eating watermelon Saadat Hasan Manto kissing food people 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 Manto might giving people Similar Authors Brian Aldiss film-writer Arnold Bennett film-writer Arthur C. Clarke film-writer Anne Roiphe film-writer Ann Brashares film-writer Andrei Tarkovsky film-writer All Authors
