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- You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.
- The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different…
- An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
- Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness,…
- Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
- we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars moving across the…
- All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out of the treasured…
- How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of…
- To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy…
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