Saurabh Sharma

https://writerlylife.substack.com/

https://www.goodreads.com/saurabhangirasharma

Saurabh’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (73)
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read‎ (529)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
non-fiction‎ (74)
fiction‎ (69)
lgbtqia‎ (40)
favorites‎ (36)
queer-literature‎ (34)
memoir‎ (22)
political-literature‎ (20)
journalistic-works‎ (15)

poetry‎ (15)
self-help‎ (15)
short-story-collection‎ (14)
essays‎ (13)
queer-activism‎ (13)
translation‎ (13)
autobiography‎ (12)
books-on-writing‎ (12)
feminism‎ (12)
academic-literature‎ (11)
politics‎ (11)
punjabi-literature‎ (10)

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amrita-pritam‎ (8)
literary-fiction‎ (8)
hindi-literature‎ (7)
history‎ (7)
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creative-nonfiction‎ (6)
parenthood‎ (6)
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psychological-fiction‎ (6)
absurd-literature‎ (5)

antipoetry‎ (5)
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civil-rights‎ (5)
literary-criticism‎ (5)
nobel-prize-in-literature‎ (5)
anthology‎ (4)
bildungsroman‎ (4)
children-s-book‎ (4)
criticism‎ (4)
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grief-literature‎ (4)
kashmir‎ (4)

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Saurabh’s Quotes

“Hyperbole comes easily to us. To find measured prose and even tone in the midst of aching grief was tough.”
― Maithili Rao, Smita Patil: A Brief Incandescence

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“To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.”
― Robert M. Pirsig

tags: living, purpose

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“For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. ”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

tags: facts, science

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“The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of the mountain, or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - which is to demean oneself.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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“You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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