Suma Rai

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“Time is free, but its priceless
You can't own it, but you can use it
You can't keep it, but you can spend it
Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.”
Harvey MacKay

Gustave Flaubert
“You should have a heart in order to feel other people's hearts.”
Flaubert Gustave

Patricia Highsmith
“The justice I have received, I shall give back.”
Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell

Katherine Boo
“Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.”
Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Stephen Greenblatt
“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
Stephen Greenblatt

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Pok La
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