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Kitnay Aadmi Thay : Completely Useless Bollywood Trivia

by Diptakirti Chaudhuri (Goodreads Author)

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On the Brink of Belief: Queer Writing from South Asia | LGBTQIA+ Stories from South Asia on Faith, Identity & Belonging Told Through Memoir, Poetry & Fiction

by Kazim Ali

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Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies

by Douglas R. Hofstadter

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Nov 03, 2025 09:51PM

“I am your little ram,
burying his muzzle in thick grass of your pasture,

folded by you at night, herded by day,
a dedicated dog nipping at my hocks.

The day will come for you to draw
the bright sickle of the moon

across my wooly throat.
Do it with love, without regret.”
― Mark Wunderlich, The Earth Avails: Poems

tags: death, love, regret

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“I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.”
― Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

tags: explain, language, style, think

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“You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.”
― John Irving, In One Person

tags: friends, learning, lesson, life, love

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“[T]here's a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.”
― Amit Chaudhuri, Calcutta: Two Years in the City

tags: art, bloodless, delicate, food, line

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“She felt her strong young body that she had never appreciated when she had it, constantly worrying that she didn't meet standards of beauty and not understanding how standards of health were so much more important.”
― Jo Walton, My Real Children

tags: appreciation, beauty, health, worry

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