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  1. Jeanette Winterson _ Why Be Happy When You Could Be

    When you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.
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  2. Claire Messud _ The Woman Upstairs

    But do you know this idea of the imaginary homeland? Once you set out from shore on your little boat, once you embark, you'll never truly be at home again. What you've left behind exists only in memory, and your ideal place becomes some strange imaginary concoction of all you've left behind at every stop.
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  3. Paul Murray _ The Mark and the Void

    Modern life is a centrifuge; it throws people in every direction.
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  4. Salman Rushdie _ The Satanic Verses

    mingling with the remains of the plane, equally fragmented, equally absurd, there floated the debris of the soul, broken memories, sloughed-off selves, severed mother tongues, violated privacies, untranslatable jokes, extinguished futures, lost loves, the forgotten meaning of hollow, booming words, land, belonging, home.
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  5. Salman Rushdie _ The Satanic Verses

    Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the air.
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