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Salman Rushdie
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Midnight's Children
Symbolic value of the pickling process: all the six hundred million eggs which gave birth to the population of India could fit inside a single, standard-sized pickle-jar; six hundred million spermatozoa could be lifted on a single spoon. Every pickle-jar {you will forgive me if I become florid for a moment} contains, therefore, the most exalted of possibilities: the feasibility of the chutnification of history; the grand hope of the pickling of time!
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Saul Bellow
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The Adventures of Augie March
What this means is not a single Tower of Babel plotted in common, but hundreds of thousands of separate beginnings, the length and breadth of America. Energetic people who build against pains and uncertainties, as weaker ones merely hope against them.
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Alexander McCall Smith
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective
every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map. {p. 18}
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