This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.
("The God of Small Things")
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I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.Arundhati Roy
Perverted quality; Moral perversion; The innate corruption of human nature due to original sin; Both the elect and the non-elect came into the world in a state of total d. and alienation from God, and can, of themselves do nothing but sin. J.H. Blunt.
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When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective
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Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?
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Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.
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His eyes were polite yet maleficent, as though he was making an effort to be civil to the photographer while plotting to murder his wife.
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