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“What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
“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
“Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
“No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
“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
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