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(For this land, India, has never been free. First the Muslims, then the British bossed us around. In 1947 the British left, but only a moron would think that we became free then.)


“What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over in the same places of my memory, wearing them thin, wearing them out? Why don't I ever learn? Why don't I ever do anything different?”
― How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
― How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

“The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”
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“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia

“So much of one's life was spent reading; it made sense not to do it alone.”
― The Art of Fielding
― The Art of Fielding

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
― The Last of the Mohicans
― The Last of the Mohicans

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