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		Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				James Norman Hall 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Randy Travis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abraham Verghese 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zoe Kravitz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				G. Willow Wilson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samantha Harvey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		To embrace Hindutva is to embrace an obscurantist, backward looking, divisive ideology that seeks to polarise society through identity politics. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kapil Sibal 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lewis B. Smedes 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I was young, I was a passionate reader of Sartre. I've read the American novelists, in particular the lost generation - Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos - especially Faulkner. Of the authors I read when I was young, he is one of the few who still means a lot to me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mario Vargas Llosa 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				William Blake 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ian Rankin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				James Norman Hall