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“It seemed to us philosophically self-evident that suicide was every free person's right: a logical act when faced with illness or senility; a heroic one when faced with torture or the avoidable deaths of others; a glamourous one in the fury of dissappointed love (see: Great Literature).”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wept with sorrow and marvel at its journey, which was tenderness for his own journey. In India almost nobody would be able to afford this rice, and you had to travel around the world to be able to eat such things where they were cheap enough that you could gobble them down without being rich; and when you got home to the place where they grew, you couldn't afford them anymore.”
― The Inheritance of Loss
― The Inheritance of Loss
“Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.”
― A Bend in the River
― A Bend in the River
“To a Western observer, schooled in the theory and practice of Western freedom, it is precisely the lack of freedom—freedom of the mind from constraint and indoctrination, to question and inquire and speak; freedom of the economy from corrupt and pervasive mismanagement; freedom of women from male oppression; freedom of citizens from tyranny—that underlies so many of the troubles of the Muslim world. But the road to democracy, as the Western experience amply demonstrates, is long and hard, full of pitfalls and obstacles." Page 115”
― What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam & Modernity in the Middle East
― What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam & Modernity in the Middle East
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