Arunava Gupta Quotes & Sayings

Well, we never expected this!" they all say. "No one liked her. They all said she was pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too fond of her tales, haughty, prone to versifying, disdainful, cantankerous, and scornful. But when you meet her, she is strangely meek, a completely different person altogether!"
How embarrassing! Do they really look upon me as a dull thing, I wonder? But I am what I am. — Murasaki Shikibu

Fitz did not censor her mail but, as the head of the family, he had the right to read any letter addressed to a female relative living in his house. No respectable woman would object. — Ken Follett

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. — Jim Rohn

If it doesn't come through the Internet, it's not really compelling to me. — Pete Cashmore

They have lied to us. They can't keep us from dying, so They lie to us about death. A cooperative structure of lies. What have they ever given us in return for the trust, the love--They actually say 'love'--we're supposed to owe Them? Can They keep us from even catching cold? from lice, from being alone? from anything? Before the Rocket we went on believing, because we wanted to. But the Rocket can penetrate, from the sky, at any given point. Nowhere is safe. We can't believe Them any more. Not if we are still sane, and love the truth. — Thomas Pynchon

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. — Ronald Wright

You seriously have a Dalmatian? Is that, like, mandatory for a firefighter? — Dawn Altieri

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific! — Harrison Birtwistle

You can't be a good leader without good character. — Tony Boselli

Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu ... — Thomas Moore

You will live because of Glendower. Someone else on the ley line is dying when they should not, and so you will live when you should not. — Maggie Stiefvater

I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock. — Inara George

Our family's fortune is growing faster than ever. We're a part of a small number of American families that own most of the country's wealth. But having so much in the hands of so few can't be good for America. — Jamie Johnson

Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself. — Italo Calvino

In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons. — Henry James