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Ayako (Ayako, #1-3)

by Osamu Tezuka

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House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author)

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Gorab said: " DNF at 70 pages in 5 months!
Maybe some other day.
Dropping it for now. "

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"Where narratives in film and fiction often rely on virtually immediate reactions, reality is far more insistent and infmitely (literally) more patient." — Oct 12, 2022 11:52PM

Apr 05, 2023 10:38PM · see review

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The Bed of Procrustes

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author)

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Gorab’s Notes & Highlights

Dilli Darbaar (Hindi) by Satya Vyas

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“अपना-अपना नसीब है भाई! कुछ लोग जिंदगी भर दूसरों की सिस्टर सेट करते हैं और कुछ लोग जिंदगी भर दूसरों का बिस्तर सेट करते हैं।”

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“I had always considered it an admirable thing to break away from security and respectability. Of course, it is easier for a man to do this. A man can look after himself, he can do without neighbours and the approval of the local society. A woman, I reasoned, would do anything for love provided it was not at the price of security; for a woman loves security as much as a man loves independence.”
― Ruskin Bond, Unhurried Tales: My Favourite Novellas

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“The nettles stung me viciously on the hands and face, and I cursed in my best Hindustani. The European languages have their strengths, but for the purposes of cursing out loud you can’t beat some of the Indian languages for range and originality.”
― Ruskin Bond, Tales of Fosterganj

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“Beware of nature’s show-offs: the banded krait, the scarlet scorpion, the beautiful belladonna, the ink-squirting octopus. Even so, history shows human beings to be the most dangerous of nature’s show-offs. Inimical to each other, given over to greed and insatiable appetites. Nature strikes when roused; man, out of habit and a perverse nature.”
― Ruskin Bond

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“The first condition of happiness is that a man must find joy in his work. Unless the work brings joy, the tedium of an aimless life can be soul-destroying.”
― Ruskin Bond, Tales of Fosterganj

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“I have written about moonlight bathing the Taj and the sun beating down on the Coromandel coast—and so have others—but who will celebrate little Fosterganj? And so I decided to write this account of the friends I made there—a baker, a banker, a pickpocket, a hare-lipped youth, an old boozer of royal descent, and a few others—to remind myself that there had been such a place, and that it had once been a part of my life.”
― Ruskin Bond, Tales of Fosterganj

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