Famous quote by Anita Desai

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"The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past"

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This quote is written / told by Anita Desai somewhere between June 24, 1937 and today. He/she was a famous Novelist from India. The author also have 10 other quotes.

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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"

"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down"

"No two persons ever read the same book"

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon"

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language"

John Donne, Poet

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

"History is a set of lies agreed upon"

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts"

"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time"

"Beware of the person of one book"