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“A lack of imagination could be as crippling for the spirit as any poverty.”

Imagination Education Creativity

Book:Milk Teeth

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“Who could peep into your pocket and see how much money you had? This was all the world had to go by. Dress and address.”

People Wealth Status

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“Passion was the opposite of power. Passion was the forsaking of power. In passion, she had offered herself as a canvas for somebody else's pen, mutely receiving his designs on her skin. In passion, she had allowed herself to dream of a new name, adding his name to her own, chopping off a part of herself as an offering. In passion, she had cut herself up, lost herself, lost days, lost months.”

Love Relationships Sadness

Book:Milk Teeth

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“First-rate people talked about ideas, only third-rate talked about people.”

People Ideas Gossip

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“Learning its mythology was one of many paths to calling a city home.”

Book:Milk Teeth

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“She had believed that the heart was like a house and when you let someone in, they were only a guest. You could entertain them in the living room while keeping the bedrooms shut. You could limit their footprint to a minimum.”

Love Heart Relationships

Book:Milk Teeth

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“Perhaps she had got it all wrong, perhaps no new love could mend what an old love had torn apart, that passion was an unstable force and perhaps her life did not have to be a constant state of flux. These pages had weathered love and loss. Now, she said to herself, it was in her hands to write here a new story.”

Love Moving On Breakup Failed Love

Book:Milk Teeth

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“Doesn't looking at the sky make you think that we are all equal in the eyes of the universe? Why can't people put their small differences aside and focus on this: we are all the same, all one.”

Humanity Universe Racism Equality

Book:Milk Teeth

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“But once you were taught to reduce a person to just one piece of their identity, it took a long time to learn to fill in the other details, to make them whole again and see them as fully human. Once you sow this mystery seed, who knows what you will harvest centuries, years, or even months later?”

Love Relationships Separation Breakup

Book:Milk Teeth

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“But middle-class in this country was a state of mind, as one of Kaiz’s unbearable friends had once declared. Not the filthy-rich of masala movies, not the dirt-poor of arthouse films, but everything in between. For some it was shorthand for middle-access, a separation from the corridors of power. For others it was middle-culture, a separation from the world of ideas.”

Book:Milk Teeth

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“This city was our common ground, I want to tell Kaiz. Not simply its soil, nor its salt or tides, not lines on any map, nor buildings and streets. Something else entirely. An image, a dream, an idea that beguiled both of us: a magical place with chaos in its code, where our stories collided briefly. That romance with the city he carries with him wherever he goes. What it means to me, though, goes beyond what we had in common, it can’t be packed up and transported tidily. Mumbai for me is two people who moved from small coastal towns to this metropolis by the sea and made it their home. My home. And that is how the city is different for the two of us: for him both Mumbai and home were abstractions. Abstractions are at once more fragile and more hardy than reality.”

Bombay Mumbai Bombay Romance

Book:Milk Teeth

Source: Milk Teeth

“You could put all the French or Italian you wanted in their names, but you couldn't take Mumbai out of the buildings: the clothes drying outside the windows would remain, and so would the mud streaks from flowerpots on windowsills.”

City Bombay Mumbai

Book:Milk Teeth

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“There was plenty of anger on offer in Mumbai and it was easy to look away. But every once in a while, someone with imagination crafted their fury like origami into something delightful.”

City Bombay Mumbai

Book:Milk Teeth

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“It will be okay, you will be okay. They call this the spirit of Bombay.”

Book:Milk Teeth

Source: Milk Teeth