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We are all creatures of the stars.
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origins
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Doris Lessing |
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every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map. (p. 18)
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love-of-country
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homeland
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Alexander McCall Smith |
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What this means is not a single Tower of Babel plotted in common, but hundreds of thousands of separate beginnings, the length and breadth of America. Energetic people who build against pains and uncertainties, as weaker ones merely hope against them.
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america
origins
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Saul Bellow |
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Symbolic value of the pickling process: all the six hundred million eggs which gave birth to the population of India could fit inside a single, standard-sized pickle-jar; six hundred million spermatozoa could be lifted on a single spoon. Every pickle-jar (you will forgive me if I become florid for a moment) contains, therefore, the most exalted of possibilities: the feasibility of the chutnification of history; the grand hope of the pickling of time!
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life
origins
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Salman Rushdie |
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My guess is that the Jonathan would be as out of place in England or Kazakhstan, the native ground of its ancestors, as I would be in Russia, the native ground of my own. The arrow of natural history won't be reversed: by now the Jonathan's as much an American as I am.
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origins
food
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Michael Pollan |