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Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 - Bilingual quotes that celebrate the beauty of language, showcasing meaningful expressions in two unique perspectives.

"Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991" is a collection of critical essays by Salman Rushdie that reflect on cultural identity, displacement, and the immigrant experience. The essays delve into the complexities of belonging and the often conflicting ties that come with being part of multiple cultures. Rushdie discusses how literature serves as a means to navigate and understand these personal and collective identities, emphasizing the role of storytelling in shaping our perceptions of home.

The collection showcases Rushdie's insights on a variety of topics, including politics, nationalism, and the impact of colonial history on contemporary society. He uses his unique perspective as a writer of Indian descent living in the West to comment on the struggles of exiles and the nuances of cultural hybridity. Through his essays, Rushdie addresses the challenges faced by individuals straddling different worlds while celebrating the richness that such diversity brings.

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Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her.

All our human endeavours are like that, she reflected, and it is only because we are too ignorant to realize it, or are too forgetful to remember it, that we have the confidence to build something that is meant to last.

by Alexander McCall Smith

In fact, none of us knows how he ever managed to get his LLB in the first place. Maybe they're putting law degrees in cornflakes boxes these days.

by Alexander McCall Smith

The value of money is subjective, depending on age. At the age of one, one multiplies the actual sum by 145,000, making one pound seem like 145,000 pounds to a one-year-old. At seven – Bertie's age – the multiplier is 24, so that five pounds seems like 120 pounds. At the age of twenty four, five pounds is five pounds; at forty five it is divided by 5, so that it seems like one pound and one pound seems like twenty pence. {All figures courtesy of Scottish Government Advice Leaflet: Handling your Money.}

by Alexander McCall Smith

Look, if you say that science will eventually prove there is no God, on that I must differ. No matter how small they take it back, to a tadpole, to an atom, there is always something they can't explain, something that created it all at the end of the search. And no matter how far they try to go the other way – to extend life, play around with the genes, clone this, clone that, live to one hundred and fifty – at some point, life is over. And then what happens? When the life comes to an end? I shrugged. You see? He leaned back. He smiled. When you come to the end, that's where God begins.

Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.

You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.

we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality-and, in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.

Where there's bluster, thinks Luisa, there's duplicity

by David Mitchell

But an ink brush, she thinks, is a skeleton key for a prisoner's mind.

by David Mitchell

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