Mark
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“When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
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“Our passionate preoccupation with the sun, the stars and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. ”
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“Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things

“Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things

“Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature.”
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