Yann Martel Quotes About Age
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Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.
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Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar-the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved.
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Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
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