English East India

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    “An arch never sleeps.”
    —East Indian saying.

    “He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.”
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)

    “Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.”
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)