Bond Quote by R.K. Narayan

“If he(Mani) were Swaminathan, he would have closed the whole incident at the beginning by hurling an ink-bottle, if nothing bigger was available, at…

— R.K. Narayan

“He was as nervous as a praying mantis at an atheists' picnic, but he bore down gently, intensifying his concentration, letting go of his…

— Tom Robbins

“Dr. Wyman preached a God I couldn’t quite see in my mind, and certainly couldn’t love. I dimly pictured some kind of Grandfather, who…

— John Hersey

“Graham had a lot of trouble with taste. Often his thoughts were not tasty. There were no effective partitions in his mind. What he…

— Thomas Harris

“He saw mankind going trough life in a childlike or animallike manner, which he loved and also despised at the same time. He saw…

— hermann hesse

“Only slowly, after long watching, did he begin to distinguish the small signs that made them trackable: the ball of gristle in the corner…

— David Malouf

“There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.”

— John Barth

“His face was still smarter and more spiritual than others, but it rarely laughed, and assumed, one after another, those features which are so…

— Hermann Hesse

“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner of our…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Now it occurred to him the changes of mental state that might be important were just such minor things as this abnormal irritability. Not…

— Don Berry

“His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing, and jazz--everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime. The tiny kindling…

— Evelyn Waugh

“One could not stand and watch very long without being philosophical, without beginning to deal in symbols and similes, and to hear the hog-squeal…

— Upton Sinclair