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People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.

People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.
– Amitav Ghosh

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  2. Improved memory made possible the long-term recollection of dreams and visions and the construction of those recollections into a spirit world. – James David LewisWilliams
  3. I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one’s imagination. – Amitav Ghosh
  4. To use the past to justify the present is bad enough-”but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past. – Amitav Ghosh
  5. I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility. – Amitav Ghosh
  6. Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being. – Amitav Ghosh
  7. Grandmother’s knee is a wonderful place to learn about the Bible, ghosts, and even Santa Claus, but a mighty poor place to learn about history. – LB Taylor Jr
  8. To exist here, I’ll have to become skilled in saying no-”an art in which I was once well accomplished, but one I no longer care to practice. – Doug Cooper
  9. Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
  10. The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind. – Terry Pratchett
  11. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. – Kerouac
  12. Politics is a delicate art of saying what people want to hear and doing what people don’t want to hear – Amit K Ghosh
  13. Home isn’t a place. It’s not having a bed to come home to, or a yard, or a Christmas tree at the holidays. Home is the people who love you. – Jennifer Lynn Barnes
  14. Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
  15. I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
  16. The home is always a home and a noble place for shaping hearts! A good home is good for life! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  17. Who you are and what you believe in is your real home, the only home no one can take from you, the only home that will last. – Adam Bagdasarian
  18. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all. – Hermann Hesse
  19. Leadership. When you attract more skilled people than you. – Alin Sav
  20. The ignorant learn from none, the simple learn from some, the intelligent learn from many, but the enlightened learn from all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  21. Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art’s sake: it exists for people’s sake. – Julian Barnes
  22. The real winners I’ve met in life weren’t necessarily skilled or perfect. They just had the tenacity to never, ever give up. – Curtis Rivers
  23. Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. – Lester B Pearson
  24. Leadership means welcoming the truth, that there might be a more skilled one than you. – Alin Sav
  25. Arjun: …the men are talking because you’re beautiful.Sita: …I would much rather they talk about me because I’m skilled. – Michelle Moran
  26. There is nothing higher-class than real craftsmanship, diversity, originality and the service of skilled human hands. – Bryant McGill
  27. Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one’s own skilled action. – Robert M Sapolsky
  28. If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556). – Richard Baxter
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  30. A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. – English Proverb
  31. A smooth sea never made a skilled marine. – English Proverb
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  33. The heart of woman is like a diamond, who need a good skilled hunter. – Eyden I
  34. Those who are skilled in combat do not become angry. The wise win before the fight and the ignorant fight to win. – Ziad K Abdelnour
  35. She’s a skilled and swift fight, and I know she’ll pass on her training on to you. – Erin Hunter
  36. Home isn’t a place. Home is the people who love you most, the people who will always love you, forever and ever, no matter what. – Jennifer Lynn Barnes
  37. The true art of memory, is the art of attention – Samuel Johnson
  38. My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever. – George RR Martin
  39. To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost. – Leslye Walton
  40. A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge. – Tove Jansson

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