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Marilynn Smith
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“grievances were narrowly conceived, which blunted a sense of common predicament. Poor people didn’t unite; they competed ferociously amongst themselves for gains as slender as they were provisional. And this undercity strife created only the faintest ripple in the fabric of the society at large. The gates of the rich, occasionally rattled, remained un-breached. The politicians held forth on the middle class. The poor took down one another, and the world’s great, unequal cities soldiered on in relative peace.”
― Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
― Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
“When you have done everything else, perfecting a conventual herb-garden is a fine and satisfying thing to do. He could not conceive of coming to this stasis having done nothing else whatever.”
― A Morbid Taste for Bones
― A Morbid Taste for Bones
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