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1 " The European languages have their strengths, but for the purposes of cursing out loud you can’t beat some of the Indian languages for range and originality. "
― Ruskin Bond , Unhurried Tales: My Favourite Novellas
2 " I had always considered it an admirable thing to break away from security and respectability. Of course, it is easier for a man to do this. A man can look after himself, he can do without neighbours and the approval of the local society. A woman, I reasoned, would do anything for love provided it was not at the price of security; for a woman loves security as much as a man loves independence. "
3 " No, thanks,’ I said. ‘I live in a tiny flat in Delhi. No room for flowers.’ ‘A world without flowers,’ he shook his head. ‘That’s what it’s coming to. "
4 " When God, the Great Mathematician, discovered that in making man he had overdone things a bit, he created the bedbug to even things out. "
5 " The deer’s life is over, but he has not lived in fear of death. It is only man’s imagination and fear of the hereafter that makes him afraid of meeting death. "
