"For never has there been, in modern times, such a Homeric world, where so much value is pinned onto the utterance of name! Entire conversations, entire lives, are devoted to the act of naming people, and in Pakistan the affluent would be totally devoid of talk if they were unable to take names in vain. Caste and all its subclassifications are recreated every day in the structure of a conversation that knows which names to name ..."

-- Sara Suleri

#Names Quotes #People Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.”

Source : "Do writers need paper?" by Tom Chatfield, www.prospectmagazine.co.uk. October 20, 2010.
“Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.”
“The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.”
“A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.”
“I love comic books. Since I was a kid, I've collected them.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Let us join hands and build a truly South African nation.”
“It seems to be generally acknowledged that sexism is far from defeated, flourishing through religions and other reactionary ideologies, which would definitely and gladly erase the concept of feminism.”

Source : Source: en.aup.nl
“The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.”

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