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Chiranthi Rajapakse
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A day at Whist
My aunts say “Modara shok maalu thiyenawa” when I say that I’m going to Modera.
I say no, fish is nowhere on my list of priorities. Heaven forbid. This is to listen to a talk. Part of a festival. Oh, a literary festival. One of those funny Colombo things they say, but in kindly tones.
I am going but I don’t know where to go. The festival is at Whist Bungalow in Modera. On the website I click on the
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Keeping Time and other stories
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"Wow. Okay, I'm definitely fangirling for China Miéville. I love his limitless imagination, the skill to effortlessly make an unbelievable premise feel real, and ability to turn any setting and place into a true protagonist.
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"All said, Chiang's new collection rocks. :) I've read a good number of these in other places, but it doesn't diminish my enjoyment. I'm referencing the stories I liked the most.
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“Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”
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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms...”
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"It reinforced what I already know: that it's possible to say something very complicated very simply. A lovely book. I cried at the end."
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
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“Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
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― M Is for Magic
“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”
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