“No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
“जनता के द्वारा न आकर अगर समाजवाद दफ़्तरों के द्वारा आ गया तो एक ऐतिहासिक घटना हो जाएगी।”
― ठिठुरता हुआ गणतंत्र
― ठिठुरता हुआ गणतंत्र
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
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“Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.”
― The Ground Beneath Her Feet
― The Ground Beneath Her Feet
“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”
― Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
― Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
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