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The_Cherry_Orchard

"And I know that it will not be easy, and that we may die in the process of this perilous journey down the beanstalk and away from this enchanted castle in the clouds."

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A Long Way Home:

"In the front room of about two by three meters, where she slept on the single bed on which she had me seated, two pieces of corrugated iron came down from the roof to a junction, obviously to channel rainwater into a bowl in the small adjacent bathroom, with its squat toilet and tub of water for washing."

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A Long Way Home

"A carpeted living room, with comfortable couches and the biggest TV I'd ever seen, a bathroom with a big bath, a kitchen with shelves full of food."

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Lost_in_Translation

"The sofa beds and the oak chifforobe and the gas stove in the bathroom, and the dust visible in the air under the overhead light, all have the plainness of things to which one is long accustomed, as if I have lived around them all this time."

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Lost_in_Translation

"Here is something worth describing to my friends in Cracow, down to such mind-boggling details as a shaggy rug in the bathroom and toilet paper that comes in different colors."

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Brooklyn

"As they drove through Blackwater village she almost pointed out the places she knew, such as Mrs. Davis's pub where her father had gone in the evenings, or Jim O'Neill's shop."

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Exit_West

" People were slipping away from where they had been, from once fertile plains cracking with dryness, from seaside villages gasping beneath tidal surges, from overcrowded cities and murderous battlefields, and slipping away from other people too, people they had in some cases loved, as Nadia was slipping away from Saeed, and Saeed from Nadia."

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Nisei Daughter

"General DeWitt must have finally realized that if he insisted on voluntary mass evacuation, hundreds and thousands of us would have wandered back and forth, clogging the highways and pitching tents along the roadside, eating and sleeping in colossal disorder."

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Lost_in_Translation

"In towns such as Bydgoszcz and Kazimierz, we stay in dirty dormitories with no private bathrooms and no toilet paper; we eat in those grim workers' cafeterias which dot the Polish landscape and in which for very little money you can get a piece of dry bread and some greasy food on a poorly washed plate.",

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Brooklyn

"Over the next while, as the night of the dance approached, the house broke into two factions: the first, which consisted of Patty and Diana, wanted Eilis to come with them to a restaurant where they would meet other people going to the dance, but the others-Miss McAdam and Sheila Heffernan-insisted that the restaurant in question was really a saloon bar and that the people who would gather there often were not sober or indeed decent.",

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The Women Of Troy

"And then there was this great outcry, shouting in the streets, I couldn't think what was going on-the slaves were all running around gabbling something about a horse, so we went outside to see.",

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The_Cherry_Orchard

"She had been to the circus and the pantomime many times before, of course, but these flimsies were mere vaudevilles for children and tonight was different; tonight was theatre and here she was resplendent in shimmering silk and in the best box in the house, the entire audience peering up at her through their gleaming brass and mother-of-pearl opera glasses, conjecturing on what daughter of what crowned head this little debutant was with her neatly cut hair and scintillating amber necklace.",

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Metamorphoses

"Her feet their usual offices refuse, Her arms, and neck their graceful gestures lose: Action, and life from every part are gone, And even her entrails turn to solid stone; Yet still she weeps, and whirled by stormy winds, Born throe the air, her native country finds; There fixed, she stands upon a bleaky hill, There yet her marble cheeks eternal tears distil."

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White_Teeth

"For forty-odd years, travelling happily along life's highway, Samad had been unaware that dotted along that road, in the creche facilities of each service station, there lived a subclass of society, a mewling, puking underclass; he knew nothing of them and it did not concern him."

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Search for subtitle: "parents immigrant"

"Growing up with immigrant parents..."

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Search for subtitle: "food immigrant"

"...different cultures and the food."

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