Quotes by : Amitav Ghosh

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

Is it your implication that no good will come of this expedition?’‘Oh it will, sir; there’s no....

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.....

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....

I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.....

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

To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify....

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