Quotes by : Amitav Ghosh

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

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:....

Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of....

That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.....

It's something you don't see until it's gone-the shapes and things have and the ways in which the people....

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

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

Need is not transitive, one may need without oneself being needed.

He said: 'You don't understand. We never thought that we were being used to conquer people. Not at all:....