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Laskar Pelangi

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Andrea Hirata
Andrea Hirata

Andrea Hirata is an Indonesian author who gained fame with his novel 'The Little Prince'. This story, which deals with themes of growth, friendship, and dreams, has resonated with readers worldwide. more

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“A young man was sitting at home when a terrible rainstorm began. Within hours, the man’s house began to flood, and someone came to his door offering a ride to higher ground. The man declined, saying, 'God will take care of me.' A few hours later, as the waters engulfed the first floor of the man’s home, a boat passed by, and the captain offered to take the man to safety. The man declined, saying, 'God will take care of me.' A few hours after that, as the man waited on his roof—his entire home flooded—a helicopter flew by, and the pilot offered transportation to dry land. Again the man declined, telling the pilot that God would care for him. Soon thereafter, the waters overcame the man, and as he stood before God in heaven, he protested his fate: 'You promised that you’d help me so long as I was faithful.' God replied, 'I sent you a car, a boat, and a helicopter. Your death is your own fault.' God helps those who help themselves.”

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Book:Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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“The last slide is Main Street at night, with the castle lit silver blue in the background. In the sky, fireworks are going off, cresting, cracking open the darkness, shooting long tendrils of colored light down to the buildings, way longer than I’ve ever seen for fireworks… I linger on this slide. I study that blue castle and those fireworks and realize that this is the image I’ve had in my head of Disneyland for all these years. Just like the beginning of the Wonderful World of Disney TV show. Maybe that’s why I wanted to head here this time. I know it’s ridiculous, but part of me wants to think that the world after this one could look like that. Like I said before, I stopped having notions about religion and heaven long ago—angels and harps and clouds and all that malarkey. Yet some silly, childish side of me still wants to believe in something like this. A gleaming world of energy and light, where nothing is quite the same color as it is on earth—everything bluer, greener, redder. Or maybe we just become the colors, that light spilling from the sky over the castle. Perhaps it would be somewhere we’ve already been, the place we were before we were born, so dying is simply a return. I guess is that were true then somehow we’d remember it. Maybe that’s what I’m doing with this whole trip—looking for somewhere that I remember, deep in some crevice of my soul. Who knows? Maybe Disneyland is heaven. Isn’t that the damnedest, craziest thing you’ve ever heard? Must be the dope talking. (pp.253-254)”

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“You can pull people to your own winter and freeze them up or you can take your sun to people’s own winter and warm them up! It is up to you to bring hell or heaven to people’s life!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
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“Herr Professor', vroeg een mevrouw aan de grote theoloog Karl Barth, 'zullen wij onze gestorven dierbaren een terugzien?' 'Jazeker mevrouw,' gaf Herr Professor ten antwoord. 'Trouwens, de anderen ook.' 'Mogen de engelen u naar het paradijs geleiden,' zingt de kerk de gestorvenen toe, maar zij laat er onmiddellijk op volgen dat zij daar in het gezelschap van de 'eertijds arme Lazarus' zullen verkeren. Geen hemel zonder verloste bedelaars. Moslims die bereid zijn zichzelf op te blazen, wordt twaalf maagden in de hemelse gewesten in het vooruitzicht gesteld. Het zou heilzaam zijn wanneer hun geestelijke leidslieden erbij zouden zeggen dat ze er ook hun schlachtoffers zullen aantreffen.”

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Book:De dag zal komen, Janus
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