Dinesh Jayaraman

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Dinesh’s Notes & Highlights

The Promise by Silvina Ocampo

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I don’t have a life of my own; I have only feelings. My experiences were never important—not during the course of my life nor even on the threshold of death. Instead, the lives of others have become mine.

Dinesh’s Quotes

“Terran man was clay, red dust. Athshean man was branch and root. They did not carve figures of themselves in stone, only in wood.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Word for World Is Forest

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“For the rest of his life that was what he said to anyone who asked—and there were people who asked, because the world is a cynical and suspicious place and, being full of liars, thinks of everything as a lie. Which is what Vidyasagar’s story was.”
― Salman Rushdie, Victory City

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“for a language to acquire retroflexion is for it to become South Asian.”
― Peggy Mohan, Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages

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“I don’t know what ‘human nature’ is. Maybe leaving descriptions of what we wipe out is part of human nature.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Word for World Is Forest

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“Languages are like those canaries that go with miners into dark paths that are full of danger. Like those canaries, they die first, long before we humans can sense that the air has begun to go bad. When languages die, it is an omen, of things to come that are still beyond our range of vision.”
― Peggy Mohan, Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages

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