Kshama Tikmani

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‘What was the fight over?’ ‘Let me see if I can remember the list.’ He ticked his fingers. ‘Vengeance. Lust. Hubris. Greed. Power. What have I forgotten? Ah yes, vanity, and pique.’ ‘Sounds like a usual day among the gods,’ I said.

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“They had always fitted together like pieces of an unsolved (and perhaps unsolvable) puzzle- the smoke of her into the solidness of him, the solitariness of her into the gathering of him, the strangeness of her into the straightforwardness of him, the insouciance of her into the restraint of him. The quietness of her into the quietness of him.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

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“We turned to my questions about the Edison. How many blood tests did Theranos perform on the device? That too was a trade secret, they said. I felt like I was watching a live performance of the Theater of the Absurd.”
― John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

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“We provoke each other to do more of what we say we don’t like about the other!”
― The Arbinger Institute, Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box

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“For the first time in her life, Tilo felt that her body had enough room to accomodate all of its organs.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

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“That is one thing gods and mortals share. When we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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