"Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country."

-- Aravind Adiga

#Country Quotes #Cities Quotes #Towns Quotes

“No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.”
“There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. Thatâ€™s perfectly all right: itâ€™s the aperture to finding out whatâ€™s right. Science is a self-correcting process.”
“Wherever I go, I run into myself.”
“I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.”

Source : "Text of Hatfill's Statement", www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.
“The melody is generally what the piece is all about.”
“Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die”

Source : Matsuo Basho (2006). “Narrow Road to the Interior”, p.132, Shambhala Publications
“Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon.”

Source : "Snowriders". Documentary, Sport, www.imdb.com. 1996.
“There are no 'holds.' Everyday you're either willing to buy more at the current price, or, if you aren't, you should redeploy the capital to something you believe does deserve incremental capital.”

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