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Vasanthi Nagaraj
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The most important reason is that I’m addicted to writing, just as I am to drinking. When I don’t write, it feels like I’m unclothed, like I haven’t had a bath. Like I haven’t had my first drink.
“The most common reaction of the human mind to achievement is not satisfaction, but craving for more.”
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
“Once, in a village, there was a goat. No one knew where she was born. The birth of an ordinary life never leaves a trace, does it?”
― Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat
― Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat
“Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“Everyone was well versed in how they were expected to behave towards the regime. They had mouths only to keep shut, hands only to make obeisance, knees only to bend and kneel, backs only to bend, and bodies only to shrink before the authorities.”
― Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat
― Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat
“He built her a bookshelf and she filled it with books by people who wrote page after page about their feelings. Ove understood things he could see and touch. Cement and concrete. Glass and steel. Tools. Things one could figure out. He understood right angles and clear instruction manuals. Assembly models and drawings. Things one could draw on paper. He was a man of black and white. And she was colour. All the colour he had.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
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