"A raintree bent towards a window in one……" — Tan Twan Eng
"A raintree bent towards a window in one side of the bungalow, eavesdropping on the conversations that had taken place inside over years."
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11 Quotes by Tan Twan Eng
Tan Twan Eng has 11 quotes on this site.
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Die while I can still remember who I am, who I used to be.
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Time is eating away my memory. Time, and this illness, this trespasser in my brain.
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For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.
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Moments in time when the world is changing bring out the best and the worst in people.
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Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then…
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The palest ink will endure beyond the memories of man
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Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In…
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I have become a collapsing star, pulling everything around it, even the light, into an ever-expanding void. Once I lose…
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To have memories, happy or sorrowful, is a blessing, for it shows we have lived our lives without reservation.
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Accept that there are things in this world we can never explain and life will be understandable. That is the…
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More Bent Quotes
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires,…
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Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your…
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The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and…
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I…
— Jeff Bridges
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or…
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Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing…
— Julie Burchill
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But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
— Robert Browning
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused…
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As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.
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