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Up to a per capita GDP of roughly $5,000 a year, life expectancy increases more or less automatically.18 But once there’s enough food on the table, a roof that doesn’t leak, and clean running water to drink, economic growth is no longer a
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“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
“He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again.
That is their mystery and their magic.”
― The God of Small Things
That is their mystery and their magic.”
― The God of Small Things
“If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
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