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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6d9640b | Nehru, speaking of his country's dreams, said: 'Those dreams are for India, but they are also for the world, for all the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.' It | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| f5bf6d0 | Gangaji's truth required activism, not passivity. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 6c57848 | In Indian culture, the woman of the house -- the embodiment of the family's honor -- treasures her gold jewelry both as her soundest asset and as the symbol of her status. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 71f125c | When we kill people, we feel compelled to pretend that it is for some higher cause. It is this pretence of virtue, I promise you, that will never be forgiven by history. | history justification killing | Shashi Tharoor | |
| 6423e23 | And then, of course, there was the sari itself. What a garment, Randy! There isn't another outfit in the world that balances better the twin feminine urges to conceal and reveal. It outlines the woman's shape but hides the faults a skirt can't -- under a sari a heavy behind, unflattering legs are invisible. But it also reveals the midriff, a part of the anatomy most Western women hide all the time. I was mesmerized, Randy, by the mere fact .. | sari sexual-attraction | Shashi Tharoor | |
| 61050f2 | He leaned towards the young man, his eyes, mouth and face all round in concentration. '"There was a banned crow,"' he intoned sonorously. '"There was a cold day." Not bad, eh? I learned those on the boat. Sounds like perfect Urdu, I'm told.' He paused and frowned. 'The devil of it is remembering which one means, "close the door," and which one will get someone to open it." | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| b4001d7 | As I was typing this last sentence, somewhat hastily, my computer's spellcheck offered 'Brutish' as an acceptable substitute for 'British' rule in India! | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 00c1003 | The ISI may well be Pakistan's answer to the Holy Roman Empire, which was neither holy, Roman nor an empire: it | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 9ce28f1 | In debate he thought high and aimed low. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 15bca8e | India is not an underdeveloped country but a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 8180dfd | national television broadcast a fifty-two-episode serialization of the Mahabharata, the script was written by a Muslim poet, Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 8313790 | Muslim sociologists and anthropologists have argued that Islam in rural India is more Indian than Islamic, in the sense that the faith as practiced by the ordinary Muslim villagers reflects the considerable degree of cultural assimilation that has occurred between Hindus and Muslims in their daily lives. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| bc152b3 | The principles he stood for and the way in which he asserted them were always easier to admire than to follow. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 1248bb0 | Mothers who love their children take them along. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| d6fc298 | The black well of sky and stars went out and out and out forever; her body and her complexity seemed to disappear. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| 025541d | Allen Ginsberg instructs: "First thought, best thought." Oh, to have my every spontaneous thought count as poetry! No draft after draft like a draft horse. Clayton Eshleman, laughing, said, "'First thought best thought' is not 'First best ' Ginsberg does rewrite. I'm sure he does." | writing-craft writing-life writing-process | Maxine Hong Kingston | |
| 87b2413 | For hours she lay on the ground, alternately body and space. Sometimes a vision of normal comfort obliterated reality: | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| 6c9189e | When these pictures burst, the stars drew yet further apart. Black space opened. She got to her feet to fight better | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| 2e6f3c5 | Affirmation for Today: I am strong enough to refrain from killing any or all members of my family. | Susan Donovan | ||
| aa5d289 | As her lungs pumped and her head cleared, she wondered if all the effort she'd put into blotting out the pain had deadened her ability to feel pleasure, too. What a shame. What a loss. | Susan Donovan | ||
| 76b9ab9 | Dear God, there couldn't be a single thing more humiliating in this entire world. Unless, of course, Hairy had been out here in his maxi pad. Thomas sighed. Walking around the house with that thing tied around his waist, Hairy had looked like a--well, he'd looked like an ugly dog in a Kotex. Thomas had laughed his ass off at first, but soon discovered the crazy scheme had saved him about three cleanup jobs in one evening alone. | Susan Donovan | ||
| a1adeba | You have the rest of your life to work, and taking a break from something doesn't mean you're any less passionate about it. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| bd93225 | She preferred wearing the thong under the garter belt instead of over it because she thought it looked better, but that required unfastening the stockings in order to slip it off if he wanted to leave the garter belt on, and he always did. He didn't mind, but it did slow down the process a bit. This time, he'd circumvented the issue by choosing a thong that tied on each side. Now he yanked on the strings and pulled it right off her, leaving.. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 6e1b086 | the way you navigate the world will never be more important than the type of person you are. | Tracey Garvis Graves | ||
| 7869c7b | Though she has trouble deciphering other people's facial expressions, her face is an open book and no one would ever have trouble understanding hers. | connection expression understanding | Tracey Garvis Graves | |
| 2b53ac5 | All right. But take my advice, Mr. Hel. Don't let this chance get away. Opportunity doesn't knock twice, you know." "Penetrating observation. Did you make up the epigram?" "I'll see you tomorrow." "Very well. And ask the guard to knock on my cell door twice. I wouldn't want to confuse him with opportunity." | Trevanian | ||
| c5a322f | Listen!" Hannah pled. "Is there someone who could drive me to the Chateau of Etchebar?" A quick conference was held between the cafe owner and the mousse players. There was some argument and a considerable amount of clarification and restatement of positions. Then the proprietor delivered the consensus opinion. "No." | Trevanian | ||
| 91a76f6 | A lee-tle bit | Trevanian | ||
| c686ee4 | The Trevanian Buff is a strange and wonderful creature: an outsider, a natural elitist, not so much a cynic as an idealist mugged by reality, not just one of those who march to a different drummer, but the solo drummer in a parade of one. | Trevanian | ||
| 376a556 | Well, of course one must have concentration. Courage. Self-control. That goes without saying. But more important than these, one must have... I don't know how to say it. One must be both a mathematician and a poet. As though poetry were a science; or mathematics an art. One | Trevanian | ||
| 4bdb144 | Dedikodu bizim kadinlarimiza gunahin tadini cikarma olanagi verir. Kendi islemeyecekleri, isleyemeyecekleri gunahlar. Cunku onlari cesaretsizlikleri, hayal guclerinin eksikligi ve firsatsizlik engelliyor. Biz de bu eksikliklere namus diyoruz. | Trevanian | ||
| 79823c6 | Without ever leaving her hide-out in Milledgeville, Georgia, Flannery O'Connor knew all there was to know about the two-lane, dirt and blacktop Southern roads of the 1950s--with their junkyards and tourist courts, gravel pits and pine trees that pressed at the edges of the road. She knew the slogans of the Burma Shave signs, knew the names of barbecue joints and the chicken baskets on their menus. She also knew a backwoods American cadence .. | William Caverlee | ||
| bedf1c3 | To his mind, an opportunity to insult a successful ape cam from the hand of Providence. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| c265fa1 | Listen here, Mr. Shiftlet," she said, sliding forward in her chair, "you'd be getting a permanent house and a deep well and the most innocent girl in the world. You don't need no money. Lemme tell you something: there ain't any place in the world for a poor disabled friendless drifting man." | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 733f36b | With a volley of blasts it emerged from the shed, moving in a fierce and stately way. Mr. Shiftlet was in the driver's seat, sitting very erect. He had an expression of serious modesty on his face as if he had just raised the dead. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| c6bfe97 | He said he had only a few days ago believed in blasphemy as the way to salvation, but that you couldn't even believe in that because then you were believing in something to blaspheme. As for the Jesus who was reported to have been born at Bethlehem and crucified on Calvary for man's sins, Haze said, He was too foul a notion for a sane person to carry in his head, and he picked up the boy's water bucket and bammed it on the concrete pavement.. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| e562592 | She appeared to adore Thomas's repugnance to her and to draw it out of him every chance she got as if it added delectably to her martyrdom. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| d870e44 | Mrs. Pritchard could not stand an anticlimax. She required the taste of blood from time to time to keep her equilibrium. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 7ff5a43 | The dead are a heap more trouble than the living. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 59675bb | I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stay's that way. Ask me about that church and I'll tell you it's the church that the blood of Jesus don't foul with redemption...Jesus was a liar. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| ef32482 | Meeks was telling him about the value of work. He said that it had been his personal experience that if you wanted to get ahead, you had to work. He said this was the law of life and it was no way to get around it because it was inscribed on the human heart like love thy neighbour. He said these two laws were the team that worked together to make the world go round and that any individual who wanted to be a success and win the pursuit of ha.. | love work | Flannery O'Connor | |
| dd3348d | Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka. | on-kissing thought-provoking | Flannery O'Connor | |
| 63b8fdc | A good man is hard to find," Red Sammy said. "Everything is getting terrible. I remember the day you could go off and leave your screen door unlatched. Not no more." | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 02721dd | Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car. | Flannery O'Connor |