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“Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.”

Quote by Aravind Adiga

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Aravind Adiga is an accomplished Indian writer born on October 23, 1974. His works are known for their profound social insight and unique literary style, with notable titles including 'The White Tiger' and 'The Last Man in Tower'. more

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“The coop is guarded from the inside.”

Book:The White Tiger: A Novel

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“We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.”

Made Mystery Locked Roosters Genuine Concern

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“Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear.”

Knows Literature Answers Clear Scary Statements Frightening

Book:If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

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“The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need.”

World Needs Important Whole Stuff Forget Rounds Forget It

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“Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.”

Goodness Filled Shocking Shattered Fragmented

Book:The Accidental

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“Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isn’t there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes superfluous in an instant, shadowed instantaneously by the things you really need, and none of them answerable by Google.”

Needs Strange Type Promise Instant Google Superfluous

Book:There but for the

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“I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them.”

Way Long Important Clothes Long Time

Book:Girl Meets Boy

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“It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental.”

Form Force Growing Environmental Bones Shoulders Kicks Toes Connecting

Author:Ali Smith

“Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.”

Knows Stories Form Joy Know How Tough Connected Faster Mortality Insightful Short Story Brevity

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“Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.”

Long Left Speak Party Conversation Dinner Partners Dull Dinner Party

Book:State of Wonder

Source: State of Wonder