Amitav Ghosh Quotes
She remembered a word he'd often used, karuna-one of the Buddha's words, Pali for compassion, for th...
Show MoreTo use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to just...
Show MoreHe said: 'You don't understand. We never thought that we were being used to conquer people. Not at a...
Show MoreI don't remember much, which is a kind of mercy,I suppose. I see it in patterns.Sometimes it's like ...
Show MoreWhy don’t they complain?""They do sometimes. But usually there's nothing in particular to complain a...
Show MoreHow had it happened that when choosing the men and women who were to be torn from this subjugated pl...
Show MoreIn the old days, farmers would keep a little of their home-made opium for their families, to be used...
Show MoreI'd been surprised by the depth of emotion that was invested in that curiously archaic phrase 'great...
Show MoreThat particular fear has the texture you can neither forget nor describe. It is like the fear of the...
Show MoreNeed is not transitive, one may need without oneself being needed.
The hours are slow in passing as they always are when you are waiting in fear for you know not what:...
Show MoreIs it your implication that no good will come of this expedition?’‘Oh it will, sir; there’s no denyi...
Show MoreSpeech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes o...
Show MoreI was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.
One could never know anything except through desire, real desire, which was not the same thing as gr...
Show MoreNobody knows, nobody can ever know, not even in memory, because there are moments in time that are n...
Show MoreI could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's ima...
Show MorePeople like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of r...
Show MoreThat unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being ...
Show MoreThis is my gift to you, this story that is also a song, these words that are a part of Fokir. Such f...
Show MoreI had a book in my hands to while away the time and it occurred to me that in a way a landscape is n...
Show MoreLanguage was both his livelihood and his addiction and he was often preyed upon by a near irresistib...
Show MoreIf there was an implicit self-hatred in trusting only your own, then how much deeper was the self-lo...
Show MoreIt's something you don't see until it's gone-the shapes and things have and the ways in which the pe...
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