Esha Gupta Quotes
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
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The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
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When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.
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I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.
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I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.
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It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.
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Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.
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In all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is several thousand times greater than the highest homicide rate in any American city.
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If I close my eyes, I can remember the first apartment where I lived with my family in Newark, N.J., in the late 1930s. The rooms were lined up like train cars - you had to go through one to get to another - and there wasn't any heat or hot water.
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Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but ultimately I believe that if you push through, the process is healing and exhilarating.
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I swear to God, that movie comes up more in my life than any other movie. Someone says 'Bowfinger' once every month or two to me. And how many years ago did that come out?
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To be human is to be visible.
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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
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I'd rather be appreciated for my character in a film than my looks.
