Han Suyin - The Crippled Tree (1965)

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Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.

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A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings.

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Rosalie had to wait many years till at last she realized that her ugliness was only in the eye of the beholder, Mama, and that actually she too was good-looking.

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Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.

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