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“With that discouraging explanation many felt that they had been the victims of some new and showy gypsy business and they decided not to return to the movies, considering that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― The Inheritance of Loss
― The Inheritance of Loss
“Molière’s words came to him, strangely comforting:Unbroken happiness is a bore; it should have ups and downs.”
― Half of a Yellow Sun
― Half of a Yellow Sun
“What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
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