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The Passenger

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Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy

American novelist known for his profound literary style and rich imagination. His notable works include 'The Border Trilogy' and 'No Country for Old Men'. more

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“દરેક વખતે આપણે મૂવ-ઓન નથી થતાં. ક્યારેક ટ્રાન્સફોર્મ થઈએ છીએ. ઘટનાસ્થળથી દૂર જવાને બદલે, આપણી એ જાતથી દૂર ચાલ્યા જઈએ છીએ જેણે દુર્ઘટના સર્જેલી. કેટલાક લોકો મૂવ-ઓન કર્યા પછી પણ બદલાતા નથી અને કેટલાકને મૂવ-ઓન કરવા માટે બદલાવું છે. માત્ર સમય નહીં, વ્યક્તિ પણ બદલાય, ત્યારે હાર્ટ-બ્રેક થયું સાર્થક કહેવાય.”

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Author:Dr. Nimit Oza
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“When I hear the hypercritical quarrelling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs,—Mr. Webster, perhaps, not having spoken according to Mr. Kirkham’s rule,—I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb’s bleat.”

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Book:The Journal, 1837-1861
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“You can’t read any genuine history—as that of Herodotus or the Venerable Bede—without perceiving that our interest depends not on the subject but on the man,—on the manner in which he treats the subject and the importance he gives it. A feeble writer and without genius must have what he thinks a great theme, which we are already interested in through the accounts of others, but a genius—a Shakespeare, for instance—would make the history of his parish more interesting than another’s history of the world.”

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Book:The Journal, 1837-1861
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“Nun stürzte ich mich voller Eifer auf die sozialistische Literatur. […] Ich las viel, ohne jede Ordnung und ohne System, die ‚Welträtsel‘ von Haeckel, Bücher von Forel, Darwin, die Reden von Ferdinand Lassalle, Engels´ ‚Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England‘, Gedichte von Freiligrath, Herwegh und Heine. Weil die Abendstunden nicht ausreichten, um meinen Lesehunger zu befriedigen, meldete ich mich im Betrieb krank und begann mehrere Wochen ‚Weltgeschichte‘ zu studieren. […] Das Leben hatte plötzlich einen anderen, neuen Inhalt bekommen. Der Lohn war nicht gestiegen, der Hunger nicht kleiner, trotzdem schien das Leben reicher und sonniger. Jedes neue Buch war ein Erlebnis, jedes neue Wissen erweckte ein bisher unbekanntes Kraftgefühl, das Dasein war nicht mehr hoffnungslos, wir fühlten, daß es eine Erlösung aus dem täglichen Grau und Einerlei des trüben Fabriklebens geben mußte.”

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Author:Willi Münzenberg
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