Quotes
Authors
Ramachandra Guha

"So long as the Constitution is not amended beyond recognition, so long as elections are held regularly and fairly and the ethos of secularism broadly prevails, so long as citizens can speak and write in the language of their choosing, so long as there is an integrated market and a moderately efficient civil service and army, and â€” lest I forget â€” so long as Hindi films are watched and their songs sung, India will survive"

Source : Ramachandra Guha (2011). “India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy”, Pan Macmillan

Ramachandra Guha

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Army Quotes

“She swallowed and looked down at the artichoke petals piled neatly on the side of her plate. Her center certainly felt like it was melting, growing soft and wet just from the rasp of Mr. O'Connor's voice. Why should a man already devilishly handsome also have a voice that could charm birds from the sky? It simply wasn't fair.”
“Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses...unless you prefer to die.”
“I guess my life was in a pretty disorderly fashion, so I think the music came out that way a little bit.”
“The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking half the money you make away from you, and the Attorney General is in charge of suing you for the other half.”
“An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.”

Source : George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.157, Booklassic
“What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?”
“If I would expect better spiritual conditions to serve, I would not have started until the present moment.”
“I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the things that stop an inexperienced writer are so far from the truth as to be nearly beside the point. When you feel glosbal doubt about your talent, that is your talent. People who have no talent don't have any doubt.”

Source : "Off the Page: Richard Bausch". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. November 20, 2003.

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