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Do you know anyone who would — secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self — really prefer to return to childhood?

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The moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.

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What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.

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Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?

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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. -
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Anita Desai

Anita Desai

Born: June 24, 1937 (age 88)
Bio: Anita Mazumdar Desai is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Known for:
  1. Fasting, Feasting (1999)
  2. Clear Light of Day (1980)
  3. In Custody (1984)
  4. The Village by the Sea (1982)
  5. Baumgartner's Bombay (1988)

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