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This resistance to authority in moral matters is now a deep current in our culture. Freedom to determine our own moral standards is considered a necessity for being fully human.
“He was a natural Protestant when I met him.", Em would say. "He protested everything.”
― Em and The Big Hoom
― Em and The Big Hoom
“Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee.”
― Em and The Big Hoom
― Em and The Big Hoom
“I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and there were other people who devoted their lives to making those words into books. It was lovely. Like standing in the middle of civilization.”
― Em and The Big Hoom
― Em and The Big Hoom
“I wanted to understand her predicament because I was her son and I loved her with a helpless corroded love.”
― Em and The Big Hoom
― Em and The Big Hoom
“I have been feeling very clearheaded lately and what I want to write about today is the sea. It contains so many colors. Silver at dawn, green at noon, dark blue in the evening. Sometimes it looks almost red. Or it will turn the color of old coins. Right now the shadows of clouds are dragging across it, and patches of sunlight are touching down everywhere. White strings of gulls drag over it like beads.
It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
Books and Authors from North-East India
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This group is to bring together all the books (fiction and non-fiction) written by authors hailing from the eights states of North-East India writing ...more
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