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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cd7deed | Who knows whence this creation had its origin? He, whether He fashioned it or whether He did not, He, who surveys it all from the highest heaven, He knows--or maybe even He does not know. -- Rig Veda, X.129 1 'Maybe even He does not know!' I love a faith that raises such a fundamental question about no less a Supreme Being than the Creator of the Universe Himself. Maybe He does not know, indeed. Who are we mere mortals to claim a knowledge .. | india nationalism religion | Shashi Tharoor | |
| 44d2138 | History belongs in the past; but understanding it is the duty of the present. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| aa96852 | It is true that a Hindu without a horoscope is like an American without a credit card, and is subject to many of the same disabilities. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 7c33a50 | Whereas an Akbar might have used such technologies to fuse his diverse people together, the British used them to separate, classify and divide. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 3007c97 | I need scarcely point out, | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 45aeabf | Trudeau's Willy Brandt moment needs to find its British echo. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| d19a238 | Dutch writer Ian Buruma saw as an attempt to remind the English 'of their collective dreams of Englishness, so glorious, so poignant, so bittersweet in the resentful seediness of contemporary little England. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 9528003 | The Atharva Veda points out that the quest for awareness, the search for answers, the journey towards self-realization, never ceases: How does the wind not cease to blow? How does the mind take no repose? Why do the waters, seeking to reach the truth, Never at any time cease to flow? --Atharva Veda, X.7.3731 | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 3ef7159 | One of the lessons you learn from history is that history sometimes teaches the wrong lessons. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| c64c11c | The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| 7408d5a | We don't smoke for enjoyment. We smoke to proclaim our faith. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 5b29083 | If only I could let my mother know the list, she --and the world--would become more like me, and I would never be alone again. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| 12ca61d | Perhaps I made him up, and what I once had was not Chinese-sight at all but child-sight that would have disappeared eventually without such struggle. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| cabc425 | duct tape--real | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 9c7fcec | our land: The Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening and Double Yoga. Northland Wildflowers and Quilts to Wear. Songs for the Dulcimer and Bread Baking Basics. Using Plants for Healing and I Always Look Up the Word Egregious. I took the books she'd read to me, chapter by chapter, before I could read to myself: the unabridged Bambi and Black Beauty and Little House in the Big Woods. I took the books that she'd acquired as a college student in the.. | Cheryl Strayed | ||
| 576db6e | Maybe because I was the one with the tongue cut loose, I had grown inside me a list of over two hundred things that I had to tell my mother so that she would know the true things about me and to stop the pain in my throat. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| 8d2ca32 | The day was a great eye, and it was not paying much attention to me now. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| 8e0df4c | The difference between mad people and sane people," Brave Orchid explained to the children, "is that sane people have variety when they talk story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over." Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior" | Mary Karr | ||
| 561ac56 | Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the new way of seeing. I learned to think that mysteries are for explanation. I enjoy the simplicity. Concrete pours out of my mouth to cover the forests with freeways and sidewalks. Give me plastics, periodical tables, TV dinners with vegetables no more complex than peas mixed with diced carrots. Shine floodlights into dark.. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| 5d7b2ec | the big day hadn't gone the way she'd hoped, not that big days ever did. Birthdays, | Tom Perrotta | ||
| d408f0b | If I'd known you were coming, he said, I woulda worn my lululemons. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 68516ec | It's a bad dream: my English teacher is standing naked at the foot of this slightly lumpy bed, clutching a pair of not-quite-white underpants in his hand, studying me with this creepy look on his face, the one he gets when he's reading aloud in class and wants us to think he's moved by the passage. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 8c9b24c | WE ARE MEMBERS OF THE GUILTY REMNANT. WE HAVE TAKEN A VOW OF SILENCE. WE STAND BEFORE YOU AS LIVING REMINDERS OF GOD'S AWESOME POWER. HIS JUDGMENT IS UPON US. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 9f5078e | Patty seemed like a nice enough woman--of course, most people seemed nice enough when they weren't allowed to talk... | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 1a03ff2 | I'd come to think of sex as this long dark tunnel that turns friends into strangers, strangers into friends. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| ca6dbd4 | and a smile with a missing tooth. "I was an adorable" | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 9d89608 | On reflection, though, it struck her as dishonest, like serving people ice cream on their first night at the fat farm. Hey, have some more hot fudge! You're gonna love it here at Camp Lose-a-Lot! | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 5774094 | him reverse cowgirl-style, | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 15bd34e | Taylor Swift wasn't actually one of them--she was just pretending, the same way Jesus had pretended to be a man. That was why she stood in front of the line, ahead of the others rather than among them. Because she was the teacher, the role model. She'd already shaken off the haters and the doubters and activated her best self. She was there to show the world what happiness and freedom looked like. You glowed with it. You did exactly what yo.. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| ef7a831 | slumped | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 463415b | found him stabbing his paperback edition with a steak knife, the tip of the blade penetrating the cover and sinking far enough down into the early chapters | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 90c5587 | blissfully unaware of the beautiful tradition they'd been chosen to uphold. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 3a1dfa7 | Eros, eyesore. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 38baf74 | us, Will had invited his camp counselor buddy, Dylan, and Dylan had brought along his roommate, this annoying kid named Sanjay. I mean, it wasn't like there was anything wrong with Sanjay, and no, I'm not prejudiced against Indian people or anyone else. It was just awkward. The rest of us were jocks and hard partiers, and Sanjay was a skinny nerd who looked like he was about twelve years old. And that's fine, you know? Go ahead and be a ner.. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 17c5778 | I got PTSD from high school. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| db3f28e | NO SHOES? WE LOVE YOU! | shoes | Tom Perrotta | |
| 7a8dc8c | Not boots, not shoes, not sneakers, not even Tevas-- | Tom Perrotta | ||
| e0011c3 | Wherever he was, he was onto something else, growing up without her, leaving her more alone than she already was. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 8a3399c | And later, of course, she got too busy. She asks Royce if he heard anything from Grace, ever. "No. No. Why should I?" "I just thought." "No." "I thought you might have looked her up later on." "Not a good idea." She has disappointed him. Prying. Trying to get at some spot of live regret right under the ribs. A woman." | Tom Perrotta | ||
| c1fb412 | Your poor lungs." "We're not gonna live long enough to get cancer. The Bible says there's just seven years of Tribulation after the Rapture." | Tom Perrotta | ||
| e0235be | Here's why at the Jesus beds they can only talk about all the stupid shit they've done--because that's all they are now, all they're ever gonna be, a twitching bunch of memories and mistakes. Regrets. Jesus, Bit thinks. I should've had the decency to go when Julie did. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| a1a96d9 | I was supposed to have a son. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 330aaaf | thinking how good it was to be free, away from the baby and from Tom, too, the two people who couldn't help reminding her of everything that had gone wrong, and what a fool she'd been. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 76266e4 | I think there have been a lot of writers who've been experimenting lately with really sprawling novels that will deal with a number of different characters and different points on the globe. I understand that as a method of getting at the global culture that we live in, and I understand writers who want to maybe juxtapose very different historical periods to make some larger points about how things have changed over time. I tend to like the.. | Tom Perrotta |