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I don't know which is more nutty. All this stuff I do outside of work, or the stuff I do all week.
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Monica Ali |
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Time is just 'one damn thing after another ', Margaret Atwood says. That sounds like conventional narrative plot. And at the end of our allotted time, we'll end up in one of those, a conventional plot I mean, unless we stipulate otherwise in our wills.
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Ali Smith |
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They were both lost in cities that would not pause even to shrug
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foreign
immigration
london
lost
society
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Monica Ali |
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Life made its pattern around and beneath and through her.
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Monica Ali |
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The boys wore jeans, or tracksuits with big ticks on them as if their clothing had been marked by a teacher who valued, above all else, conformity.
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Monica Ali |
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ambitious people awe some and terrify others!
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Ali Vali |
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I can't stay," said Chanu, and they clung to each other inside a sadness that went beyond words and tears, beyond that place, those causes and consequences, and became a part of their breath, their marrow, to travel with them from now to wherever they went."
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Monica Ali |
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Tevis being childless meant you felt a little sorry for her, and a bit jealous. Probably the same way she felt about you.
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Monica Ali |
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If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men (page 80).
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Monica Ali |
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She had another English word. She carried it all the way down the corridor.
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Monica Ali |
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Kadang keadaan ternyata tidak seburuk yang disangka. Kadang-kadang hal buruk yang disangka akan datang malah tidak datang sama sekali. Kalian hanya harus menunggu dan melihat keadaan.
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Monica Ali |
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There is yet another class that, having found that their own religion not only prevents free thinking but that some of its philosophies are also against some basic social, economic and scientific concepts of life as required by the progressive society, comes to the illogical conclusion that all religions similarly thwart the growth of progressive societies... Such people fall easy prey to materialism and denounce all religions without havin..
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atheists
dawkins
religion
richard-dawkins
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Mohammed Ali Muhiyaddin |
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shut up", it means be quiet and listen!"
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Ali Vali |
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Sometimes I like to compare people who don't like women to vegetarians." "Interesting analogy, and I do like the way your mind works, so lay it on me." He opened the door and waved her in. "If God had meant for people to be vegetarians, a good steak wouldn't taste so divine. Following that line of thinking, neither would a woman."
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inspirational
lesbian
love
religion
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Ali Vali |
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no one can be strong all the time, no matter how broad their shoulders!
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Ali Vali |
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In the only way that pain can be truly remembered, through a new pain.
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Monica Ali |
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He would not come again. This was good. No. This was bad. At least it was an end.
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Monica Ali |
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An hour and forty-five minutes before Nazneen's life began-began as it would proceed for quite some time, that is to say uncertainly-her mother, Rupban, felt an iron fist squeeze her belly.
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Monica Ali |
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Spreading rumours is our national past time
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past-time
waste-of-time
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Monica Ali |
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while she wanted to look neither to her past nor her future, she lived exclusively in both. They had took different paths, but they had journeyed, so she realized, together.
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future
life
past
present
thought-provoking
thoughts-on-life
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Monica Ali |
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In the rainy season, back home, when the land had given way to water and the buffaloes grew webbed feet, when the hens took to the roofs, when marooned goats teetered on minuscule islands, when the women splashed across on the raised walkway to the cooking hut and found they could no longer kindle a dung-and-husk fire and looked to their reserves, when the rain rang louder than cow bells, rice was the means, the giver of life.
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Monica Ali |
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All the while, when Nazneen turned to her prayers and tried to empty her mind and accept each new thing with grace or indifference, Chanu worked his own method. He was looking for the same essential thing. But he thought he could grab it from the outside and hold it against his chest like a shield... Where Nazneen turned in, he turned out; where she strove to accept, he was determined to struggle; where she attempted to dull her mind and nu..
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truth
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Monica Ali |
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Mr. Ram was a dedicated person--that means he didn't let go of the things that were important to him. He was dedicated to Seniors Games Club every week. He got dressed up to go. Everyone knew he was serious about spending time with his friends, that's how dressed up he was. He was dedicated to people. Even though he was a serious person, with a lot on his mind, he made sure to let you know he remembered you. Always. He smiled at jokes even ..
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S.K. Ali |
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anger, in and of itself, is a good thing, within reason, but it will be your greatest enemy if you don't learn to control it!
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Ali Vali |
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those who want to beat you down can't succeed unless you give them help!
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Ali Vali |
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Gabe, did you pray?' 'Sort of.' 'Me too. Do you believe?' 'No. Do you?' 'No.' 'I don't believe,' said Gabriel, 'But I have faith, if you know what I mean.' 'What in?' 'I don't know, life, carrying on, I suppose.' 'Yes.
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faith
god
in-the-kitchen
life
monica-ali
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Monica Ali |
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A pair of schoolchildren,pale as rice and loud as peacocks,cut over the road and hurtled down a side street,galloping with joy or else with terror (p. 55).
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Monica Ali |
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Suddenly, she was gripped by the idea that if she changed her clothes her entire life would change as well.
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Monica Ali |
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Sinking, sinking, drinking water. When everyone in the village was fasting a long month,when not a grain, not a drop of water passed between the parched lips of any able-bodied man, woman or child over the age of ten, when the sun was hotter than the cooking pot and dusk was just a febrile wish, the hypocrite went down to the pond to duck his head, to dive and sink, to drink and sink a little lower. p. 105
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Monica Ali |
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the uneducated grow up to be prey!
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Ali Vali |
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the past is known, but the future can sometimes be troublesome!
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Ali Vali |
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Life throws the years at your feet soon enough, so learn to enjoy each stage as it happens.
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Ali Vali |
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to speak without thinkin will lead you to an early grave, or to a very small cinder-block cell!
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Ali Vali |
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The air was hot and wet, as if it had absorbed the sweat of countless bodies. It dripped also with scandal.
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Monica Ali |
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A man cannot live without water. He cannot live without it, but he can bear the thought of no water. A man can live without sex. He can live without it, but he cannot bear the thought of no sex.
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Monica Ali |
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We open a book, we turn a newspaper page, we allow the television and the radio to come into our homes. All the things we are told every day - are the true?
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Monica Ali |
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In the rainy season, back home, when the land had given way to water and the buffaloes grew webbed feet, when the hens took to the roofs, when marooned goats teetered on minuscule islands, when the women splashed across on the raised walkway to the cooking hut and found they could no longer kindle a dung-and-husk fire and looked to their reserves, when the rain rang louder than cow bells,
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Monica Ali |
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And the city itself was just a glow on the dark earth...
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Monica Ali |
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When you have fallen low, she told herself, what hurts is pretending you are high.
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Monica Ali |
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Nishi's sister, who was sixteen years old, had gone for a "holiday" in Sylhet and returned six months later with a husband and a swelling belly. Nishi, strong on forward-planning skills, was taking evasive action: she was going on a holiday of her own and she would return when she was twenty-five. At that ancient age the danger of marriage was over."
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Monica Ali |
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I don't look down on them, but what can you do? If a man has only ever driven a rickshaw and never in his life held a book in his hand, then what can you expect from him?
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Monica Ali |
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An ignorant person will always overdo a thing or neglect it totally.
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Ali |
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When some blessings come to you, do not drive them away through thanklessness.
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Ali |
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The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.
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