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But what should I do?' Varun was saying. 'I'm not good for anything.'
'Write a book! Pull a rickshaw! Live! Don't make excuses,' said Dr. Ila Chattopadhyay, shaking her grey hair vigorously. 'Renounce the world like Dipankar. No, he's joined a bank, hasn't he? How did you do in your exams anyway?' she added." - Vikram Seth, "A Suitable Boy


Vikram Seth

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...
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Tiger Lily pulled her braids between her fi...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON I was vanquished by a deer!'
A giant magical flying deer with fangs,' Seth said, parroting a de...
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“You are surprisingly lovely.” <...
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Why try to make me like you?
Why are you hurt ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Why do you do up your hair in those tortured plaits, now, Melanie? Why?
Because, she said.
ANGELA CARTER She smiled at him. “How did you know just what I’d want to see?”
“How could I not?” h...
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I jumped out of my skin. She was standing right beside me. “Who?”
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...
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I don't know," she s...
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LES MARTIN Hello, Harry!” she said.
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“Oh, h...
J.K. ROWLING How old are you, anyway?' she asked, squinting at him.
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NATALIE BABBITT Hi" she said.
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CORMAC MCCARTHY As I said, you have mistaken me for another. London is full of drab little peahens, sir. Now, then, ...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971)

I don't know how she did it. Fire
She was shaking all over...
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"To make sure Katniss is still...
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Isabelle wobbled. "He's a rat," she said darkly.
...
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- What?
- A cookie. Like an Oreo. Do you want one?
- No.
-...
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“Casey. I’ll be there in spirit.�...
RACHAEL WADE Make no mistake, dwarf. I fought for you, but I do not love you''

''It was your blade I ...
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JAMES ATLAS Do you have a Wish?' he asked, referring to this organization, The Genie Foundation, which is in the...
JOHN GREEN Dr. Manning said he'd thought at first it might be sleeping sickness, or even narcolepsy, whatever t...
HENRY KUTTNER A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place...
ANKITA SINGHAL Good night, Seth."
"So you're running again, then?" One of his boots thudded on the floor.
MELISSA MARR You know nothing says love like a man holding a bucket, waiting for you to hurl into it."

SHERRILYN KENYON Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should...
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fu...
BRANDON MULL Abby,” he signed.
“Hmm?”
“I have a confession to make.”
“Okay,” she ...
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UNKNOWN What did she say to you?"
"Nothing."
"Oh, great. I have to try to get you out of this mess...
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“What do you mean?”
“I mean, you tel...
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JEANNETTE WALLS [Jem] 'It will help you sleep.'
'All I’ve been doing is sleeping!' [Tessa]
'And very amu...
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?"
"Like I said," he ...
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Catch me, Seth," she invited.
He paused.
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...
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PAULO COELHO I remember the first time I saw you,” Allie said.
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NEAL SHUSTERMAN H--‐how did we get in the water?”

“You were burning. I needed to do something to co...
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W...
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Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
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CARTER CROCKER And when Jace was ten years old, Valentine killed him. Michael,
I mean."
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"Right."
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KELLEY ARMSTRONG I don’t want any money.”
I put the wallet away.
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She had no friends, ye...
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...
"I d...
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to yours anyway? And how
did ...
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So give me less f...
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Unifo...
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SETH BERKLEY The thing to keep in mind is that we're still in the very early days when it comes to the search...
SETH SHOSTAK 'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love t...
SETH SHOSTAK The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense...
SETH LOW You can't stop wars to build tertiary teaching hospitals, but you can say, 'Let's stop f...
SETH BERKLEY I love science, and I believe in it. I have a faith that science can solve problems and make the wor...
SETH BERKLEY When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations, and making bold steps that change the course...
SETH BERKLEY Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher...
SETH BERKLEY History will not judge HIV/AIDS kindly... the harshest words will be reserved for how the world resp...
SETH BERKLEY I was a serial monogamist.
SETH BERKLEY In large part, thanks to widespread immunization, the number of young children dying each year has d...
SETH BERKLEY I wish we could have state-of-the-art hospitals in every corner of the earth... but realistically, i...
SETH BERKLEY We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.
SETH BERKLEY Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 3...
SETH BERKLEY Healthy children are more likely to attend school and are better able to learn. Healthy workers are ...
SETH BERKLEY When AIDS first appeared, people didn't know what it was. You'll remember that it affected m...
SETH BERKLEY Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our pro...
SETH BERKLEY The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted. It mutates fur...
SETH BERKLEY You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens...
SETH BERKLEY New vaccines are being developed all the time, which could save many more lives and dramatically imp...
SETH BERKLEY Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to th...
SETH BERKLEY The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes fro...
SETH BERKLEY Now, when you get a viral infection, what normally happens is it takes days or weeks for your body t...
SETH BERKLEY Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.
SETH BERKLEY In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rura...
SETH SHOSTAK Each year, thousands of UFOs are sighted and reported, which is an impressive tally of unidentified ...
SETH SHOSTAK Of course there is still unexplored terrestrial territory, but most of it is waterlogged. Submersed ...
SETH SHOSTAK I've done bingo halls and tents in front of 10 people with a cow mooing in the background. Doing...
SETH ROLLINS I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cr...
SETH MACFARLANE My mother is an incredibly beautiful woman who has laughed at every single thing my father's eve...
SETH MEYERS By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean t...
SETH SHOSTAK These are some of the things for which we believe the American people owe no little gratitude to the...
SETH LOW The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not ...
SETH SHOSTAK We're pushing the limits of what a game is, and they think I'm beyond this limit. There will...
SETH PRIEBATSCH In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the sa...
SETH GODIN The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surpris...
SETH SHOSTAK When my girlfriend and I talk about being happy, I'll get choked up, which I think is the greate...
SETH MEYERS The nice thing about anger is that, as an emotion, it's strong enough to unplug me from the come...
SETH MEYERS Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.
SETH GODIN I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The O...
SETH MACFARLANE Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize ce...
SETH SHOSTAK People recognise me and come up to me sometimes, but I'm not like George Clooney.
SETH ROGEN Are we the only members of the Galaxy that can actually understand what a galaxy is? Could Homo sapi...
SETH SHOSTAK Please, please be very, very diligent in what you do. Your actions could affect more than just yours...
BENNIE SETH If you live in a county where they do allow you to do outdoor burning and you know you have a lot of...
BENNIE SETH They're expecting and predicting a very dry early summer, so we need to begin thinking about how we'...
BENNIE SETH