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Bayan’s Quotes

“We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

tags: truth, writing

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“Longed for him. Got him. Shit.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: disappointment, marriage

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“In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty

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“These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand over your passport at the check-in, you get stamped, you want to make a little money, get yourself started... but you mean to go back! Who would want to stay? Cold, wet, miserable; terrible food, dreadful newspapers - who would want to stay? In a place where you are never welcomed, only tolerated. Just tolerated. Like you are an animal finally house-trained.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

tags: immigrants, immigration, tolerance

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