Ranjeev Jethwani Quotes & Sayings

Critics have found in the narrative a veneer of erudition that cloaks nothing more than a James Bond-style romp, albeit a highly addictive one. His publisher has described it as 'a thriller for people who don't like thrillers'. One newspaper put it thus: 'It is terribly written, its characters are cardboard cutouts, the dialogue is excruciating in places and, a bit like a computer manual, everything is overstated and repeated - but it is impossible to put the bloody thing down. — Dan Brown

Unlike exotic fruit or fancy cars, democracy is best if it is grown locally. It may take root in the common desire of the people who choose to adopt it, but it cannot be imposed from the outside. — Anna Porter

Oh, how short are the days! How soon the night overtakes us! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now there is nothing left to publish. Five years after his interment, Proust seems dead for the first time. — Janet Flanner

Talk, not sex, constitutes most of the intercourse between a man and his wife. — Herman Wouk

But the path of self-purification is hard and steep. To attain to perfect purity one has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action; to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I — Mahatma Gandhi

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much. — Clarice Lispector

Hmm mmm I mean, work is work, I'll take whatever work I can get. — Matthew McGrory