Paddy Field Quotes

• Civilisation never dies, it may change, but it is eternal. Where the paddy field is born on the dry river bed of Titash, there begins another civilisation.

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  Ritwik Ghatak

  Rivers   Bed   Dry  

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• Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time.

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  Alex Garland

  Book   Love You   Night  

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.8, Penguin

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• We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.

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  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Children   Fighting   Play  

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• Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time. (...) Dropping acid on the Mekong Delta, smoking grass through a rifle barrel, flying on a helicopter with opera blasting out of loudspeakers, tracer-fire and paddy-field scenery, the smell of napalm in the morning. Long time.

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  Alex Garland

  Morning   Love You   Night  

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.8, Penguin

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• As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

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  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Children   Paddy   Fields  

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• You can spread your soul over a paddy field, you can whisper to a mango tree, you can feel the earth between your toes and know that this is the place, the place where it begins and ends. But what can you tell to a pile of bricks? The bricks will not be moved (page 87).

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  Monica Denise Brown

  Tree   Soul   Fields  

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