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“When it came to me, Mrs Roy taught me how to think, then raged against my thoughts. She taught me to be free and raged against my freedom. She taught me to write and resented the author I became”
― Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me

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“Ideas move in space and time. They swim like fish. They drift like pollen. They migrate like birds. Sometimes their movement carries them right around the world, and they find new niches in which to flourish.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Is a River Alive?

tags: ideas, inspiration, living-rivers, nature, paradigm-shift, perspectives, rights-of-nature

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“I chose Ganga's method for dealing with catastrophe and pretended nothing had happened. It wasn't so easy. The scene not only stayed with me, it grew larger for not being spoken and proved perhaps the theorem of imaginary numbers by showing that imagination is many times the size of reality.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

tags: crisis, denial, drama, imagination, irish, reality, repression, silence

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“Nothing made me forget the world like reading did. Nothing made me think about the world like reading did. Nothing else filled me up. Nothing else emptied me out. Sentences and paragraphs would drift through my head like clouds.”
― Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me

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“Holding out was a quirk in human nature and those who lived in the Last Minute had found not only was there no penalty in lateness but often a bonus not granted the timely.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

tags: human-nature, last-minute, lateness, patience, quirks, time, waiting

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