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- The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.
- Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all... it is a…
- It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.
- Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
- With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world as a black…
- Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock…
- Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to…
- And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things…
- But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was…
- It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it.…
- When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had…
- Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way…
- The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.
- It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining three raccoons, treating…
- Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment.
- If you are happy in a dream, Ammu, does that count? Estha asked. "Does what count?" "The happiness does it count?". She knew exactly what…
- He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he couldn't see her.…
- Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched…
- There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
- It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their…
- The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.
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