Author: Neel Mukherjee

Cites

• James Salter (1)
  • IN: The Lives of Others (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others?
    FROM: Light Years, (1975), NULL, US
• Lewis Carroll (1)
  • IN: The Lives of Others (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Daniel Kehlmann (1)
  • IN: The Lives of Others (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ...things are the way they are and when we recognize them, they are the same as when recognized by others or indeed by no one at all.
    FROM: Measuring the World, (2005), NULL, Germany
• Leo Tolstoy (1)
  • IN: The Lives of Others (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In historical events what is most obvious is the prohibition against eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
    FROM: War and Peace, (1869), NULL, Russia
• Cynthia Ozick (1)
  • IN: A Life Apart (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: History isn't only what we inherit, safe and sound and after the fact; it is also we are ourselves obliged to endure.
    FROM: Public Intellectuals, (2000), Essay, US
• John Milton (1)
  • IN: A Life Apart (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Anod now the sun had stretched out all the hills, And now was dropped into the western bay; At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue: Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.
    FROM: Lycidas, (1638), Poem, UK
• Rabindranath Tagore (1)
  • IN: A Life Apart (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And then another problem reared its head. When Miss Gilby had first entered the inner courtyard there had been a great deal of trouble that had lasted quite some time. Eventually, the whole thing had got buried under the routine and rhythms of quotidian life. But soon everything was raked up again; I hadn't given much thought to Miss Gilby's nationality for a long time but now I began to do so. I said to my husband, "I think you should ask her to leave." He kep quiet. I said a lot of unpleasant things to him. He heard me out, silent and sad, and then left the room. I sulked and cried for a while. That night, he said to me, "Bimala, I cannot see Miss Gilby as just an English woman and nothing more. Does the fact that you've known her for so long count as nothing? Is her Englishness everything? Don't you understand how fond she is of you?" I felt ashamed but coudn't swallow my pride entirely and agree that he was right. So I said, somewhat petutantly, "All right, then, let her stay. Who's asked her to leave?"
    FROM: Bimala's autobiography, The Home and the World, (1916), Book, India
• V. S. Naipaul (2)
  • IN: A State of Freedom (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
    FROM: A Bend in the River, (1979), Novel, England/Trinidad
  • IN: State of Freedom (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
    FROM: A Bend in the River, (1979), Novel, England/Trinidad
• NULL (1)
  • IN: A State of Freedom (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Migrants? We are not migrants! We are ghosts, that's what we are, ghosts.
    FROM: Syrian refugee at the border of Austria, (2015), Conversation, Syria
• Syrian refugee at the border of Austria (1)
  • IN: State of Freedom (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Migrants? We are not migrants! We are ghosts, that's what we are, ghosts.
    FROM: NULL, (2015), Conversation, Syria