"I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.)"

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Source : Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

Aravind Adiga

#Thinker Quotes

“I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.”

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“When I was seven or eight, I was bought a fantastic book called 'The Movie Treasury of Horror Movies' by Alan G. Frank; it became my bible. It's packed full of the most amazing photos and is still fantastic to look at.”
“If you give Shevchenko half a chance, he'll score two goals. That's how good he is”
“Everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you'll remember, mountaintops are rocky and cold. There is no growth on the top of a mountain. Sure, the view is great, but what's a view for? A view just gives us a glimpse of our next destination-our next target. But to hit that target, we must come off the mountain, go through the valley, and begin to climb the next slope. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.”
“I like to be able to come and go as I please, and I don't really like having my face and name plastered around. I think it's a bit weird to have your name plastered on every page in a magazine, where in each case you're using a different piece of equipment.”
“Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth.”
“Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect.”
“One of the appeals of William Carlos Williams to me is that he was many different kinds of poet. He tried out many different forms in his own way of, more or less, formlessness. He was also a poet who could be - he was a love poet, he was a poet of the natural order and he was also a political poet.”

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