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Write India winners share their favourite quotes from literature!

TNN | Last updated on - May 5, 2017, 18:23 IST
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Kena Shree- winner for author Ashwin Sanghi for Write India

"You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, ‘This is the problem I want to have.’ I will find that special person who is wrong for me in, just the right way.”
- Galway Kinnell, Let our scars fall in love
2/20

Vani Shivashankar- two-time winner in the top 10 for author Ravi Subramanian and author Preeti Shenoy

"Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help us."
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions
3/20

Dr Roshan Radhakrishnan - winner for author Durjoy Datta for Write India

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
4/20

Sutapa Basu - winner for author Amish for Write India

"Just because everyone is going in one direction doesn't mean you should, too. They could be wrong."
- John Green, The Fault In Our Stars
5/20

Tishampati Sen- winner for author Ravi Subramanian, third runner-up for author Chetan Bhagat

"And thus I fling the dear-bought crown,
But whither can I fly?
The awful thought still follows me
That even kings will die."
-- Aurangzeb at his father’s bier – Hur Chunder Dutt
6/20

Vasudha Chandna Gulati - winner for author Anita Nair, third runner-up for author Ravinder Singh

"I didn't answer him, but I did think to myself, I can. Whoever's Up There running the show, Mr. Supreme Being, sir, keep it up, I can take this ad infinitum. Because, Jenny is Jenny."
- Erich Segal, Love Story
7/20

Jacintha Saldanha- winner for author Ravinder Singh for Write India

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
8/20

Bhaswar Mukherjee- two-time winner in the top 10 for author Ashwin Sanghi and author Tuhin A Sinha

"But it is not enough to merely exist," said he, "I need freedom, sunshine and a little flower for a companion."
- Hans Christian Anderson, The Butterfly
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Tishampati Sen- winner for author Ravi Subramanian, third runner-up for author Chetan Bhagat

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead”
– Ernest Hemmingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
10/20

Sutapa Basu - winner for author Amish for Write India

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."
- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
11/20

Kena Shree - winner for author Ashwin Sanghi for Write India

“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.”
- Roman Payne, The Wanderess
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Vasudha Chandna Gulati - winner for author Anita Nair, third runner-up for author Ravinder Singh

"In the first photograph, standing there in our black robes and scraves, we are as we had been shaped by someone else's dreams. In the second, we appear as we imagined ourselves. In neither could we feel completely at home."
- Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
13/20

Jacintha Saldanha- winner for author Ravinder Singh for Write India

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship"
- Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
14/20

Dr Roshan Radhakrishnan- winner for author Durjoy Datta for Write India

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
15/20

Kena Shree - winner for author Ashwin Sanghi for Write India

“What of Art?
-It is a malady.
Love?
-An Illusion.
Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
You are a sceptic.
- Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
What are you?
-To define is to limit.”
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Tishampati Sen- winner for author Ravi Subramanian, third runner-up for author Chetan Bhagat

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens"
– J.R.R Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
17/20

Jacintha Saldanha- winner for author Ravinder Singh for Write India

"It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy"
- Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced
18/20

Sutapa Basu - winner for author Amish for Write India

"I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then'"
- Lewis Carroll, Alice In Wonderland.
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Kena Shree- winner for author Ashwin Sanghi for Write India

"Things won are done!
Joy's soul lies in the doing."
- William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida
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Vani Shivashankar- two-time winner in the top 10 for author Ravi Subramanian and author Preeti Shenoy

"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love."
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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