"I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can't think of any literature - perhaps Russian literature in the nineteenth century comes close - so exclusively produced by and closely identified with a tiny but powerful ruling elite, the upper-caste, Anglophone upper middle class, and dependent for so long on book buyers and readers elsewhere."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#Powerful Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.”

Source : Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.3, Random House
“A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have.”
“The jail thing is very, very present in all of my work... Sometimes not very frontally. The jail is coming from the camps, because my mother was in the camps, and she internalized that and gave it to me.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The Democratic Party is no longer the Democratic Party.”
“Sometimes the right path is not always the easiest.”
“We need more science, but what we especially need is science fiction.”
“What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.”
“It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.”

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