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Dhruv Bhandula
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Reading for the 2nd time
read in January 2015
Dhruv Bhandula said:
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A spellbinding tale of the happenings of the middle earth filled with love, despair, perils and adventures.
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The monkey population is definitely on the increase, and I wouldn't be surprised if one day it exceeds the human population. Of course, the way things are going, a time may come when we won't be able to distinguish between monkeys and
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Brilliant introductory line
“Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.”
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“Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.”
― A Bend in the River
― A Bend in the River
“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
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“On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 70th birthday. "Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.”
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“Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.”
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