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Dhruv Bhandula
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Dhruv Bhandula
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by Gene Kranz
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Dhruv Bhandula
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middle-earth
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
“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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“When I was sixteen, I made the discovery -- love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me.”
― A Streetcar Named Desire
― A Streetcar Named Desire
“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
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“Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.”
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“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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