Amitava Kumar quotes
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“Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes. All his books were odd, all of them ‘unfinished’ the way Chopin’s Études are unfinished: no wasted gestures, no unnecessary notes.”
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“There is no beginning that is a blank page,”
-- Amitava KumarSource : Amitava Kumar (2013). “Bombay--London--New York”, p.17, Routledge
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“The border is a marketplace. The invisible hand of the powerful governs the crossings.”
-- Amitava KumarSource : Amitava Kumar (2000). “Passport Photos”, p.219, Univ of California Press
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“Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes. All his books were odd, all of them ‘unfinished’ the way Chopin’s Études are unfinished: no wasted gestures, no unnecessary notes.”
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“Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007
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