"In India even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. There may be two answers, there may be five, a dozen or a hundred; the only thing that is certain is that all will be different."

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Source : Eric Newby (1966). “Slowly Down the Ganges”

Eric Newby

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“Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.”
“Only he who loves and is loved for his own sake can be happy, and what produces that happiness is not so much the sense of sexual communion as of two people being together ... the sexual act viewed as a whole probably affords less happiness than a totally ordinary kiss or often indeed one simple word from the one you love.”

Source : "Wonderful, Wonderful Times". Book by Elfriede Jelinek, 1990.
“The fact that scientists do not consciously practice a formal methodology is very poor evidence that no such methodology exists. It could be said-has been said-that there is a distinctive methodology of science which scientists practice unwittingly, like the chap in Moliere who found that all his life, unknowingly, he had been speaking prose.”
“Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts.”
“The idea that you can't be attractive and funny at the same time is something that I hate.”
“The prayer does call for serious, serious punishment on people. But I didn't call for that, God did.”
“Oil runs America and it's the sad reality.”

Source : Source: puregrainaudio.com
“I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.”

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