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It was as if an embankment had been swept away and I (Neel ) were floundering in a flood , trying not to drown in my grief.
— Amitav Ghosh
To use the past to justify the present is bad enough - but it's just as bad to use the present to justify the past.
— Amitav Ghosh
Beauty is nothing but the start of terror we can hardly bear, and we adore it because of the serene scorn it could kill us with ...
— Amitav Ghosh
Well sir, if slavery is freedom then I'm glad I don't have to make a meal of it. Whips and chains are not much to my taste.
— Amitav Ghosh
If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.
— Amitav Ghosh
He (Kesri) understood that the gap left by his departure from home had been filled by the continuing flow of their lives.
— Amitav Ghosh
Already the sahibs have done more to keep the lower castes in their places than our Hindu kings did over hundreds of years.
— Amitav Ghosh
Sometimes beauty is like curse,
— Amitav Ghosh
Have we not done enough by our duty, Shireen? Do we not also have a duty to ourselves?
— Amitav Ghosh
It is by worrying about adversity that people survive; complacency brings catastrophe.
— Amitav Ghosh
We must be the willow, not the oak, in the lowering storm.
— Amitav Ghosh
Nabadwip, a centre of piety and learning consecrated to the memory of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu - saint, mystic, and devotee of Sri Krishna.
— Amitav Ghosh
There was no place more solitary than a dark room, with its murky light and fetid closeness.
— Amitav Ghosh
People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.
— Amitav Ghosh
Some day, following the example of men like themselves, said Mr Fraser, the Chinese too would take to Free Trade:
— Amitav Ghosh
( ... ) an instance when Fate had conspired with Nature to give them a sign that theirs was no ordinary journey.
— Amitav Ghosh
And to no one is this state more attractive than to those whom it is consistently denied.
— Amitav Ghosh
Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being.
— Amitav Ghosh
From the older ox the younger learns to plough.
— Amitav Ghosh
I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.
— Amitav Ghosh
It's something you don't see until it's gone-the shapes and things have and the ways in which the people around you mould the shapes.
— Amitav Ghosh
The only way to find out was to try.
— Amitav Ghosh
Pon my sivvy, Miss Lambert! Aren't you quite the dandyzette today? Fit to knock a feller oolter-poolter on his beam ends!
— Amitav Ghosh
Her hair, long, black and flowing, was her great asset, and she liked to wear it over her shoulders,
— Amitav Ghosh
He recalled how a voice in his head had warned that he would pay for his pleasure one day. Now that the day had come,
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That he was no stranger to budmashing, barnshooting
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The memories were so vivid that the book dropped from my hand and my eyes filled with tears.
— Amitav Ghosh
To scuttle a boat you don't have to rip out the whole bottom, you just need to remove a few planks, one by one.
— Amitav Ghosh
We are happy we soar very high and when we are not we fall into the depths of an abyss.
— Amitav Ghosh
Nobody knows, nobody can ever know, not even in memory, because there are moments in time that are not knowable.
— Amitav Ghosh
We knew, didn't we, that it would have to end one day? Apparently that day has come and we must accept it.
— Amitav Ghosh
In a way the better the master;the worse the condition of slave,because it makes him forget what he is.
— Amitav Ghosh
That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.
— Amitav Ghosh
The last few months had passed in a kind of delirium
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The government to you is what God is to agnosticsonly to be invoked when your own well being is at stake. — Amitav Ghosh
That which a man takes for himself no one can deny him.
— Amitav Ghosh
