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“I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!”
― Bob Marley

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“I hear my silence talked of in every lane;
The suppression of a cry is itself a cry of pain.”
― Darshan Singh

“if only we lost our minds and arrived at our hearts”
― Robert James Waller

“Our passionate preoccupation with the sun, the stars and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. ”
― Eric Hoffer

“Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“Avoid contact with all people in whom there is no possible resonance with what touches you most deeply and toward whom you have obligations of "kindness," of politeness.”
― Laure (Colette) Peignot, Laure: The Collected Writings

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.”
― Paul McCartney, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Being crazy isn't enough.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
― Albert Einstein

“When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― Arundhati Roy

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
― Arundhati Roy

“Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger?”
― Arundhati Roy

“Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature.”
― Arundhati Roy

“Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things