Amitav Ghosh Quotes
“I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.”
Quotes to Explore
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I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
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Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
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Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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I went from working with Spielberg to working with Clint Eastwood - I might as well just retire.
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As cheesy as it sounds, nothing beats a smile and a bit of confidence! As long as you feel good on the inside, you can still look beautiful without any makeup at all.
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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I think 'The Shining' is one of the first horror movies I remember seeing.
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More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.
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They grew fat and happy--the horses, not the children, or Marlena for that matter.
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It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.
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The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.
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Imagination is the other end of Reality.
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“I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.”
