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    Arundhati Roy
    “That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
    tags: words
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    Arundhati Roy
    “The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
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    Arundhati Roy
    “I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.”
    ― Arundhati Roy
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    Arundhati Roy
    “The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable.”
    ― Arundhati Roy
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    Arundhati Roy
    “People always loved best what they identified most with.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
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    Arundhati Roy
    “The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
    tags: alive, carpe-diem, dead, death, dream, dying, existing, life, life-and-death, living, reality, truths
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    Aravind Adiga
    “Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cages. They see the organs of their brothers lying around them.They know they are next, yet they cannot rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop. The very same thing is done with humans in this country.”
    ― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
    tags: analogy, cynical, india
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    Aravind Adiga
    “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.”
    ― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
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    Carol Rifka Brunt
    “Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.”
    ― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
    tags: impossible, love, love-hurts, unrequited-love
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    P.L. Travers
    “Don’t you know that everybody’s got a Fairyland of their own?”
    ― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins
    tags: childrens-books, fairy-tales, fairyland
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    “Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.”
    ― John Nash
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  • #12
    “Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.”
    ― John Nash
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: jordan-baker
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    Jacqueline Susann
    “People parted, years passed, they met again- and the meeting proved no reunion, offered no warm memories, only the acid knowledge that time had passed and things weren't as bright or attractive as they had been.”
    ― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls
    tags: time-passing
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    Albert Einstein
    “On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 70th birthday. "Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Lin Yutang
    “When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.”
    ― Lin Yutang
    tags: men, set, shadows, sun
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: book, inspirational
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: fitzgerald
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: alcohol, drinking, sobriety
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    O. Henry
    “I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.”
    ― O. Henry
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    O. Henry
    “Maybe the hairs on my head were numbered" she went on with a sudden serious sweetness "but nobody could ever count my love for you".”
    ― O. Henry
    tags: hair, o-henry, the-gift-of-the-magi
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
    is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
    person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: love, romance, romantic, sentimentality
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: humor, intimacy, sexual
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
    tags: attainment, desire
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    Dan Brown
    “God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.”
    ― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
    tags: god, prayers
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    Dan Brown
    “Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.”
    ― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
    tags: faith, science
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  • #30
    Dan Brown
    “The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.”
    ― Dan Brown, Inferno
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