Bye Bye Blackbird
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Sayfa Sayısına Göre Bye Bye Blackbird sözleri ve alıntılarını, sayfa sayısına göre Bye Bye Blackbird kitap alıntılarını, etkileyici sözleri 1000Kitap'ta bulabilirsiniz.He had known them all, he had met them before, in the pages of Dickens and Lamb, Addison, and Boswell, Dryden and Jerome K. Jerome; not in colour and in three dimensions as he now encountered them, but in black and white (and made of paper – )and yet how exact the reproductions had been, how accurate, he realised as he recognised the originals around him,within reach at last.
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''I wouldn't live in a country where I was insulted and unwanted'' he said grandly.
''No?Why have you come then?''
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"Like knowing you can never get to the top because there'll always be Englishman there..."
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"But there are no beggars in England. We are always told that in India - that no one needs to beg in England."
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... and London's history shrank and crept closer to him, cosily, familiarly, with Dr Johnson and Boswell tripping down the road to their coffee bar next door and Dryden having a session of his own across the road.
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"There's always a fresh start and a clean page and a shining Monday morning to live for."
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''But what am I to sell - graves? Dev had an instant vision of himself ringing door-bells in Lambeth, greeting housewives in flowered aprons with a "Good morning, ma'am, will you be needing a grave today? Anyone dying on the Family hearth ? Pack him in this pretty coffin, hoist him into the hearse, bring him down to us and we'll lind him six feet of beautiful earth under violets, yews and dove droppings. Plenty of room for all relations to come and join him when they feel like it. Lovely atmosphere, real death-like you know. Do your heart good every time you come to visit the dear departed. . ."
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I am here, he intoned, as an ambassador. I am showing these damn imperialists with their lost colonies complex that we are free people now, with our own personalities that this veneer of an. English education has not obscured, and not afraid to match
ours with theirs. I am here, he proselytized, to interpret my country to them, to conquer England as they once conquered India, to show them, to show them.
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''We were travelling on this very crowded bus when an Englishwoman got on, carrying a whole lot of parcels. No one got up for her and she sniffed, 'There don't seem to be any gentlemen on this bus.' There was an old Indian chap on the bus, and he piped up, 'Madam, there are many gentlemen but no seats.' "
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