"When I first decided to be a writer, that meant dealing with preoccupations and concerns that took little account of Indian traditions. I saw India's past as part of an antiquity rendered irrelevant by modernity, which with its science, nation states, free enterprises, and consumer societies was supposed to have solved all problems."

-- Pankaj Mishra

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“I got interested in the contradiction between people who are understanding the city by not moving a single inch, by remaining in the same place all the time, and people like me who are constantly roaming around.”

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“If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.”

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“Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.”
“Mary is the lily in God's garden.”
“Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich old-fashioned story-telling. Novik lures her readers into the streets of a bawdy seventeenth-century London with a nudge and a wink and keeps them there with her infectious love of detail and character. A raunchy, hugely entertaining read that will leave you at once satiated and hungry for more.”
“First of all, never buy a man a plasma TV until you're married. A lot of men once they have a plasma TV they don't need a girlfriend”
“America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.”
“Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.”

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