“when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“because, in my life, fate has never been unwilling to lend a hand.”
― Midnight's Children
― Midnight's Children
“Part of the solution to that problem was for one person, the chief, to exercise a monopoly on the right to use force.”
― Guns, Germs and Steel
― Guns, Germs and Steel
“Ah, my dear friend, I cannot claim it as my own. It was Karla who said it to me the first time, and I have used it ever since. I am guilty of many crimes—of most crimes, to say the truth—but I have never claimed a cleverness that was not my own.’ ‘Admirable,’ I laughed.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“It was as if I’d found myself in a performance of some extravagant, complex drama, and I didn’t have a script.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
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