Quotes by : Amitav Ghosh

Language was both his livelihood and his addiction and he was often preyed upon by a near irresistible....

If there was an implicit self-hatred in trusting only your own, then how much deeper was the self-loathing....

I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.

The hours are slow in passing as they always are when you are waiting in fear for you know not what:....

One could never know anything except through desire, real desire, which was not the same thing as greed....

I had a book in my hands to while away the time and it occurred to me that in a way a landscape is not....

Why don’t they complain?""They do sometimes. But usually there's nothing in particular to complain....

She remembered a word he'd often used, karuna-one of the Buddha's words, Pali for compassion, for the....

This is my gift to you, this story that is also a song, these words that are a part of Fokir. Such flaws....

I don't remember much, which is a kind of mercy,I suppose. I see it in patterns.Sometimes it's like a....