"I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were prospering like crazy, I couldn't quite make out how the new wealth had changed the prospects of the majority of city residents who lived in slums. So after a few years I stopped wondering and started reporting."

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Source : "The whorl of poverty". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2012.

Katherine Boo

#Husband Quotes #Crazy Quotes #Years Quotes

“The great corrupter of public man is the ego.... Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.”

Source : "History as Literature".
“Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.”
“The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.”
“Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!”

Source : Sir Edwin Arnold (1885). “The Secret of Death, from the Sanskrit: With Some Collected Poems”
“I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.”
“The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.”
“In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force.”
“All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.”

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