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Some power, maybe God, was showing me how we can centre ourselves to rise above our maladies.
“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
“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
“A well-told lie can heal. Otherwise, what's fiction?”
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“There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”
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“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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— last activity May 10, 2012 04:55AM
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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