"It may be that writers in my position, exiles or emigrants or expatriates, are haunted by some sense of loss, urge to reclaim, to look back, even at the risk of being mutated into pillars of salt. But if we do look back, we must also do so in the knowledge -- which gives rise to profound uncertainties -- that our physical alienation from India almost inevitably means that we will not be capable of reclaiming precisely the thing that was lost; that we will, in short, create fictions, not actual cities or villages, but invisible ones, imaginary homelands, Indias of the mind," (pp. 10)
-- Salman Rushdie
In, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
(Granta Books - Viking Penguin, 1991: London, England)
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“The way someone treats you is not a reflection of your worth: It’s a reflection of their emotional capacity,”
~ Jillian Turecki.
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