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I couldn't make any sense of this logic, that the better off got more and those had little got less. The world ran on this law and only on this.

One generation builds, the next generation consumes it to nothing; that is the abiding truth of life.

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.

I don't read my books, so I don't allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doing things differently.

Within minutes a small crowd had gathered: what could be more interesting than other people's lives?

I'm much more attracted to the miscegenation of cultures than to harmony.

Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on the outside.

One writes what one can, or has to, write.

Her veins and arteries ran with a bitter fluid, not blood, Adinath exclaimed in fury one day.

Work defines our lives and our place in the world.

The incident, played out for, it seemed, a few infinitely elastic seconds, caused a certain calculation to go through the boy's head.

Whoever said that time blunts all pain did not quite understand that bluntness can wound as grievously as sharp points and edges;

Being a Bengali, one is surprised when all the endless spume and froth of talk suddenly reveals itself to be the front of a gigantic wave of action.

Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule.

I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later became 'A Life Apart.'

It was enough that I knew my soul sang, I didn't have to break into minstrelsy.

When a book is going well, it tells you where to go.

It could be said of him that while others chased the mirage of happiness, he was happy with being content.

Not for the first time in his life he felt himself fall into the gap between felings and their articulation in language.