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The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.

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Vikas Swarup
Age: 54
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.
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One does not question a miracle.
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I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the Hindustan Times.
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Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside-down. It colours your waking moments and fills your dreams. You begin to walk on air and see life in brilliant new shades. But it also brings with it a sweet agony, a delicious torture.
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Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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...a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.
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The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
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