Ali Majidov
@alieemac
Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi
Isparta,Türkiye
Bakü Azerbaycan
11 kütüphaneci puanı
27 okur puanı
Mayıs 2023 tarihinde katıldı
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Okuma Hedefleri
"Much Better Hang Wrong Fellow Than No Fellow"
“They won't go free, don't you fear. We'll get 'em.
Get SOMEBODY, anyhow. Much better hang wrong fellow than no fellow,' he added, unconsciously quoting. ”
Sayfa 266 - Karbon KitaplarKitabı okudu
A White Man Had Been Killed
“No one among the Europeans genuinely mourned for him. But that is not to say that they were not angry. On the contrary, for the moment they were almost mad with rage. For the unforgivable had happened--a white man had been killed."
Sayfa 263 - Karbon KitaplarKitabı okudu
The Idle Life, The Rich Clothes
“For in all this there was not a spark of love for him. If she wept and grovelled it was only for the position she had once had as his mistress, the idle life, the rich clothes and dominion over servants.”
Sayfa 172 - Karbon KitaplarKitabı okudu
Okur Takip Önerileri
Like The Crocodile
"Like the crocodile, U Po Kyin had struck at the weakest spot. For, needless to say, this scene was U Po Kyin's doing. He had seen his chance, as usual, and tutored Ma Hla May for her part
with considerable care.”
Sayfa 302 - Karbon KitaplarKitabı okudu
Pestige Is All
“They were silent for a moment. Flory understood well enough that "prestige is all".”
Sayfa 165 - Karbon KitaplarKitabı okudu
Arranging Your Own Rebellion
“Ah, well, I could stop them if I chose, of course. But then I do not choose. I have my reasons. You see, Kin-Kin, you will please keep silence about this. This is, so to speak, my own rebellion. I arranged it myself.”
Sayfa 153 - Karbon KitaplarKitabı okudu
Giving Attention To A Stranger
“He only knew that at each attempt to make her share his life, his thoughts, his sense of beauty, she shied away from him like a frightened horse.”
Sayfa 147 - Karbon KitaplarKitabı okudu
The Meat Market
“When a girl's failed everywhere else she tries India, where every man's pining for the sight of a white woman. The Indian marriage-market, they call it. Meat market it ought to be.”
Sayfa 121 - Karbon KitaplarKitabı okudu
Crayz how the roles have changed over the years
“Laundress?' he said. 'Laundress! I say, dammit, some mistake there! No such thing as a laundress in this country, y'know. Laundering work's all done by men. If you ask me--”
Sayfa 110 - Karbon KitaplarKitabı okudu
Free Speech is Unthinkable
“Free speech is unthinkable. All other kinds of freedom are permitted.
You are free to be a drunkard, an idler, a coward, a backbiter, a fornicator. But you are not free to think for yourself.”
Sayfa 76 - Karbon KitaplarKitabı okudu
Booze As The Cement Of Empire
"Of gilt, shall we say? There's a kind of spurious good-fellowship between the English and this country. It's a tradition to booze together and swap meals and pretend to be friends, though we all hate each other like poison. Hanging together, we call it. It's a political necessity. Of course drink is what keep the machine going. We should all go mad and kill one another in a week if it weren't for that. There's a subject for one of your uplift essayists, doctor. Booze as the cement of empire."
Sayfa 43 - Karbon KitaplarKitabı okudu
Set foot in the East
"But he was one of those Englishmen--common, unfortunately--who should never be allowed to set foot in the East."
Sayfa 27 - Karbon KitaplarKitabı okudu
Little Pot-Bellied Niggers Breathing Garlic In Your Face...
"He's asking us to break all our rules and take a dear little nigger-boy into this
Club. Dear Dr Veraswami, for instance. Dr Very-slimy, I call him. That would be
a treat, wouldn't it? Little pot-bellied niggers breathing garlic in your face over the bridge-table. Christ, to think of it! We've got to hang together and put our foot down on this at once."
Sayfa 25 - Karbon KitaplarKitabı okudu
Suspicion is Proof
"No European cares anything about proofs. When a man has a black face, suspicion is proof."
Sayfa 13 - Karbon KitaplarKitabı okudu
"I have learnt that all men live not by care for themselves but by love."
Sayfa 45Kitabı okudu
