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The mosquitoes here are big enough to rape a chicken. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Internationalism' is a way of reading, and not a demography of readership. — Amit Chaudhuri

... "shagging" - a quasi-comical activity, like belching or farting, except it was more taboo and more necessary than these. — Amit Chaudhuri

Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders. — Joseph Joubert

The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity. — Michael Moore

When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games. — Drew Carey

Anyone who finds himself putting down several commas close to one another should reflect that he is making himself disagreeable. — Henry Watson Fowler

the most dreamless and introspective time of day, a sort of midnight of the daytime — Amit Chaudhuri

Only drunks stare at statues .... I never liked the statues keeping vigil, primarily because they were too close to life. — Amit Chaudhuri

You must learn to control the filth of your tongue, my son. It will send you to hell. — James Clavell

The Bengali was the Marwari of the early nineteenth century. — Amit Chaudhuri

History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book. — Amit Chaudhuri

This is what's beautiful about staying in a club or hotel: you're invisible, as is your neighbour. — Amit Chaudhuri

Water begins to boil in the kettle; it starts as a private, secluded sound, pure as rain, and grows to a steady, solipsistic bubbling. — Amit Chaudhuri

History is not the annals; it's what happens around us when we're unaware it's history. — Amit Chaudhuri

This is a little parable about cities and genres; how, while some of them lose their imaginative centrality, others take their place. — Amit Chaudhuri

Nothing here is more fabulous than the truth — Jessie Burton

Calcutta is like a work of modern art that neither makes sense nor has utility, but exists for some esoteric aesthetic reason. — Amit Chaudhuri

Fantasists aren't natural readers. They grow restive easily. — Amit Chaudhuri

Photographers are the new Brahmins: we have no volition when they rule us. — Amit Chaudhuri

The grown-ups snapped the chillies (each made a sound terse as a satirical retort), and scattered the tiny, deadly seeds in their food. — Amit Chaudhuri

Don't leave me. I need you, just you. I don't want to be round anyone else, but you, Tweet. — Alison G. Bailey

And that most people would never understand the devastating need of those left behind, the need to know the truth. — Darynda Jones

[T]here's a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food. — Amit Chaudhuri

[G]ive nothing centrality, because writing is about continually shifting weight from one thing and moment to the other. — Amit Chaudhuri

He has a traditional shopper's DNA, an eye for freshness and appearance, and a consistent sense of a home to go back to. — Amit Chaudhuri

I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science. — Timothy Leary

Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply. — Amit Chaudhuri

I treat vegetarianism as a phase that might any second end without warning. — Amit Chaudhuri