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Complete Stories

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"Succinct, poignant, and remarkable … I already have many favourites from this book which I want to read again and again... MUST READ!" — Dec 12, 2016 04:21AM

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Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher: Introduction by Alexander McCall Smith (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

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“Vivas to those who have fail’d!
And to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea!
And to those themselves who sank in the sea!
And to all generals that lost engagements, and all overcome heroes!
And the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known!”
― Walt Whitman

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“This is what makes them good engineers. Perfectionism: incinerating perfectionism.”
― Ellen Ullman, The Bug

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“Manto had earlier been prosecuted in Lahore for obscenity, and one of the words alleged to have been obscene was, “breasts”
― Saadat Hasan Manto, Why I Write: Essays by Saadat Hasan Manto

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“From the day to till the day there are two humans living together they were and they will be involves in political process.”
― Zaman Ali, HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good

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“IT WAS JUST NOON that Sunday morning when the sheriff reached the jail with Lucas Beauchamp though the whole town (the whole county too for that matter) had known since the night before that Lucas had killed a white man.”
― William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust

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