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Beyond idiom, however, the book is incorrigibly Western in being targeted for the contemporary Western mind. That being the author’s mind, he had no choice in the matter; but it must be accepted with the recognition that the book would have
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“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
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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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“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
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“Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to do; those (the unhappiest) who never knew what their purpose in life was; and those who found out later on. I was in the last category, I reckoned, which didn't stop me wishing I'd been born into the first.”
― The Buddha of Suburbia
― The Buddha of Suburbia
“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Factotum
― Factotum
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