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The Ghost Road (Regeneration #3)

by Pat Barker

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— May 17, 2015 11:08PM

May 04, 2015 12:28AM

“Not all family bonds are equal. The lie so assiduously propagated by mothers – ‘How can you ask who is my favourite? They are all my children, I love all of them equally. Are you partial to one finger of your hand over another?’ – is disbelieved by everyone, yet it is quite astonishing what pervasive currency it has in the outward show of lives. Everyone”
― Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others

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“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
― Anthony Burgess

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“All superstructures, including the family, rest on the base of one thing, and one thing only – economics. The family is the first and the primary unit of oppression and exploitation.”
― Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others

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“One man's feeling is not always equal to all life is. Sometimes it's not equal to anything much at all.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

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“Whoever said that time blunts all pain did not quite understand that bluntness can wound as grievously as sharp points and edges;”
― Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others

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