Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with the Naxals and their guns shipped from China. If you taught every poor boy how to paint, that would be the end of the rich in India.
Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.
Knowing those things are going to kill you," she said, "and still you do it." "How differently I might behave," Tom said, "if immortality were an option".
Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favorite kind of person, in fact.
My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.
My real dissatisfaction is with my dissatisfaction. How dare I be so discontent? How dare I? Or being discontent why cannot I shut up about it?
No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.
Nobody seems to understand that in such matters the tact and sympathy should come from the one who is about to die, not the poor bugger who has to take the news.
Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I'm lucky enough that it's reasonably mild in my case.
Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
Poetry is not made to be sucked up like a child's milkshake, it is much better sipped like a precious malt whisky.
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