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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6dc05d9 | Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along. | Walter Kirn | ||
| 40e8b19 | I feel like my head is finally the right size. I feel like it finally fits around my mind. | Walter Kirn | ||
| e37e02f | Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn | Walter Kirn | ||
| 2c73b78 | Behind the building rose towering, aged pine trees whose shadows fell crabbed and arthritic across the lawn. The lawn was expansive and in good, green shape. It offered contrast. It was like a fresh haircut on a drunken tramp. | Walter Kirn | ||
| c084c78 | He looked like a being who'd voyaged back through time from a world that had overcome illness, pain, and conflict. | Walter Kirn | ||
| f7d903a | Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements. | Walter Kirn | ||
| 81a7153 | His voice sounded more sincere in these surroundings, less distorted by pride and pain. | Walter Kirn | ||
| c0e3d17 | This was all our world was made of: decomposed visions. Not atoms --- bits of dreams. | Walter Kirn | ||
| 2f7f6b6 | She was already dead, but we were starved for followers and stupefied by the elixir of our own heroism, and so we pretended words could resurrect her. | Walter Kirn | ||
| 031ba84 | Meanness on request isn't meanness at all, but kindness carried too far. | Walter Kirn | ||
| 1467592 | The human body is strangely made and sometimes it pays not to think about it too closely. | Walter Kirn | ||
| ee1f735 | Just think! Garden, garden, garden, garden, garden, two happy people, and it could have gone on forever! They knew, they'd been told, but they ate it anyway, and from there on out, 'family!' Shame, fear, jobs, mortality, envy, murder..." "Well," William said brightly, "and sex." | some-other | Deborah Eisenberg | |
| 0a6551c | Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and with what eventually one of her mentors described as an almost alarming speed; she was like a dancer, he said, out in the cosmos springing weightlessly from star to star. Drones, merely brilliant, crawled along behind with laborious proofs that supported her assertions. | Deborah Eisenberg | ||
| c505d84 | The catholics fight for the dogma of their . The Nazis fight for victory on the battlefield. And then there's Alucard... If you really think about it, they all fight for the same thing. How very unfortunate... | Kohta Hirano | ||
| ffe00c1 | The man gave Westin two | Jerry B. Jenkins | ||
| a664f10 | parents | Jerry B. Jenkins | ||
| f867a1f | When I rise in the morning and go to sleep at night, I will think of you, O King. For you are great and powerful and majestic and full of splendor. The entire kingdom is yours. Truly you are lifted high above everything. | Jerry B. Jenkins | ||
| 47aa3d0 | As it has always been, so shall it ever be. The King is on his throne and is in control. | Jerry B. Jenkins | ||
| a818a5b | known by the fruit we bear. You try to live for Jesus, Elisabeth. I know you do." Elisabeth scowled. "Doesn't God want me to?" "Sure, but why?" "Daddy, I'm asking you." Dr. LeRoy stood and stretched, and Elisabeth did the same. His yawn was contagious too, but she fought sleep. If her own mother had the same problem she did, and she had found the answer, Elisabeth would not rest until she found it too. Her father sat again. "Listen carefull.. | Jerry B. Jenkins | ||
| 792fde4 | Passed through fire and plunged through salt water and offered to the winds of the air; thus were names sealed to these chosen children. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 3b3aee7 | Whosoever comes to me, through whatsoever form, I reach him; all men are struggling through paths which in the end lead to me. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| f5e23bc | Jawaharlal Nehru's first Cabinet list set a standard that would never again be matched, while establishing a precedent for diversity that all his successors would strive to emulate. A | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| c1c7703 | While he was alive, he was impossible to ignore; once he had gone, he was impossible to imitate. When | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 4c238bc | Twilight never lasts long in India, but its advent was like opening time at the pubs our rulers had left behind. The shadows fell and spirits rose; the sharp odour of quinine tonic, invented by lonely planters to drown and justify their solitary gins, mingled with the scent of frangipani from their leafy, insect-ridden gardens, and the soothing clink of ice against glass was only disturbed by the occasional slap of a frustrated palm against.. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 516d4d9 | It is precisely faith that makes thinking possible, for faith offers the unthought ground out of which thinking can emerge. It is faith that makes moral and other decisions possible, opening to us the horizon against which our actions become meaningful. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| d30e7c2 | Colonialism was made possible, and then sustained and strengthened, as much by cultural technologies of rule as it was by the more obvious and brutal modes of conquest that first established power on foreign shores... Colonialism was itself a cultural project of control. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 5d3c252 | Like most Hindus, I think I have. I am, as I told you, a believer, despite a brief period of schoolboy atheism -- of the kind that comes with the discovery of rationality and goes with an acknowledgement of its limitations. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 4996660 | The assumption on the part of most Indian political parties that overt friendship with Israel would cost its advocates dearly at the Indian ballot box remains a strong factor, especially when elections loom in states with a significant number of Muslim voters. It did not help that pro-Israeli stances were, in the early years, advocated only by the communally minded Hindu chauvinist party the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which used support for Isra.. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 6ffe1e7 | When a marauder destroys your house and takes away your cash and jewellery , his responsibility for his actions far exceeds that of the servant who opened door to him, whether out of fear, cupidity or because he simply he didn't know any better. | history-politics politics | Shashi Tharoor | |
| f57b2d3 | equal | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 579fad5 | Forget heaven and hell, yaar," he says as he leaves. "It's purgatory I'm concerned about. We call it Earth." | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 6c17fd8 | We carry with us the weight of the past, and because we do not have a finely developed sense of history and historicism, it is a past that is still alive in our present. We wear the dust of history on our foreheads, and the mud of the future on our feet. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 0c5f405 | The historian A. J. P. Taylor calls the massacre 'the decisive moment when Indians were alienated from British rule'. No other 'punishment' in the name of law and order had similar casualties: 'The Peterloo Massacre had claimed about eleven lives. Across the Atlantic, British soldiers provoked into firing on Boston Commons had killed five men and were accused of deliberate massacre. In response to the self-proclaimed Easter Rebellion of .. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 961fd81 | The naval expansionism of the southern Chola and Pallava empires took Indian influences directly to Thailand, Malaya, Indonesia and Cambodia. Later, | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 2958195 | Pakistan was created by Jinnah's will and Britain's willingness'--not by Nehru's wilfulness. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 489dd7f | The British did little, very little, of such things. They basked in the Indian sun and yearned for their cold and fog-ridden homeland; they sent the money they had taken off the perspiring brow of the Indian worker to England; and whatever little they did for India, they ensured India paid for it in excess. And at the end of it all, they went home to enjoy their retirements in damp little cottages with Indian names, their alien rest cushion.. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| f9fcb7a | Alex von Tunzelmann's clever start to her book Indian Summer made my point most tellingly: In the beginning, there were two nations. One was a vast, mighty and magnificent empire, brilliantly organized and culturally unified, which dominated a massive swath of the earth. The other was an undeveloped, semi-feudal realm, riven by religious factionalism and barely able to feed its illiterate, diseased and stinking masses. The first nation was .. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 8a1aec7 | The British conquest of India was the invasion and destruction of a high civilization by a trading company [the British East India Company] utterly without scruple or principle, careless of art and greedy of gain, over-running with fire and sword a country temporarily disordered and helpless, bribing and murdering, annexing and stealing, and beginning that career of illegal and 'legal' plunder which has now [1930] gone on ruthlessly for one.. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 5a32349 | Indeed there were outstanding examples of good governance in India at the time, notably the Travancore kingdom, which in 1819 became the first government in the world to decree universal, compulsory and free primary education for both boys and girls.) The British charges against the rulers they | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 2d4d7cf | India is my country, and in that sense my outrage is personal. But I seek nothing from history--only an account of itself. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| fbd78c7 | Hinduism as a faith might espouse tolerance, this does not necessarily mean that all Hindus behave tolerantly. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 16f9186 | If you believed in truth and cared enough to obtain it, Ganga affirmed, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it. It was essential to accept punishment willingly in order to demonstrate the strength of one's convictions. That | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 2f8b392 | But the men--hungry, greedy, tired of planting in dry soil--had been forced to leave the village in order to send food-money home. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| be77099 | His Good list outstripped the Evil list; Good may always preponderate in this method of reckoning. | Maxine Hong Kingston |