William Dalrymple quotes
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“Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.”
-- William DalrympleSource : William Dalrymple (2003). “City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi”, p.60, Penguin
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“Mr William, he said, in my life six times have I crashed, and on not one occasion have I ever been killed.( Bevinda Singh taxi driver from City of Djinns”
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“India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.”
-- William DalrympleSource : William Dalrymple (2004). “White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India”, p.7, Penguin
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“For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel.”
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“...Dean Mohamet, a Muslim landowner from Patna who had followed his British patron to Ireland. There he soon eloped with, and later marries, Jean Daly, from a leading Anglo-Irish family.... In 1807 Dean Mohamet moved to London where he opened the country's first Indian owned curry restaurant, Dean Mohamet's Hindoostanee Coffee House :...He finally decamped to Brighton where he opened what can only be described as Britain's first oriental massage parlour and became "Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV. "”
-- William Dalrymple
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“Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.”
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Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.139, Macmillan
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“When I'm gone, you'll be sitting in a cafe and say, "Do you remember Agnes?"”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.”
Source : Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1903). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom ...”
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“Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery”
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“MAMMOOTTY has presented an outstanding performance in film'New Delhi'”
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“In 'Delhi Belly,' I was bald; in other movies I always carried a different look.”
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Source : William Dalrymple (2003). “City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi”, p.60, Penguin
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