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The Hungry Tide
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"The Hungry Tide" Quotes

A young Indian-American woman travels to the Sundarbans to study rare river dolphins, where she becomes entwined in the lives of a local fisherman and a scientist.

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The future is always a story about the past.

Amitav Ghosh

philosophytime

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.

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dangerbelief

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

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lifedetachment

There can be no peace if there is no justice.

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peacejustice

One does not measure the tide with a spoon.

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wisdompatience

The world depends for its existence on the act of doing something that is not easy.

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challengeexistence

The sea doesn't change and it's never the same. It's a different thing every time you look at it.

Amitav Ghosh

seachange

The best place to meet God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Amitav Ghosh

spiritualitygardens

The only place in the world where one could be neither a foreigner nor an exile was a library.

Amitav Ghosh

bookslibrary

The sea is a place of mystery, where the past, present, and future merge.

Amitav Ghosh

seamystery