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  • #1
    Vikas Swarup
    “I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?”
    Vikas Swarup, Q & A

  • #2
    Vikas Swarup
    “Till now, my conception of love has been based entirely on what I have seen in Hindi films, where the hero and the heroine make eye contact, and whoosh, some strange chemistry sets their hearts beating and their vocal chords tingling, and the next you see of them they are off singing songs in Swiss Villages and American shopping malls.”
    Vikas Swarup, Q & A
    tags: love

  • #3
    Vikas Swarup
    “You must never take a direct route to your destination.”
    Vikas Swarup, Q & A
    tags: life

  • #4
    Vikas Swarup
    “A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.”
    Vikas Swarup, Q & A

  • #5
    Vikas Swarup
    “Train journeys are about possibilities. They denote a change in state. When you arrive, you are no longer the same person who departed.”
    Vikas Swarup, Q & A

  • #6
    Vikas Swarup
    “Because luck comes from within”
    Vikas Swarup

  • #7
    Vikas Swarup
    “I held my breath and wished for that moment to last as long as it possibly could, because a waking dream is always more fleeting than a sleeping one.”
    Vikas Swarup, Q & A

  • #8
    Vikas Swarup
    “The city may have chosen to ignore the ugly growth of Dharavi, but a cancer cannot be stopped simply by being declared illegal. It still kills with its slow poison.”
    Vikas Swarup, Q & A

  • #9
    Vikas Swarup
    “You should take a good look at all sides of an issue before making a decision. Put something away in case of an emergency. New neighbors will bring good cheer. A small problem may occur at home base, but you will solve it quickly and correctly. Don’t offer smart advice unless you are really asked to comment.”
    vikas swarup

  • #10
    Vikas Swarup
    “appearances can be deceptive and the dividing line between good and bad is very thin indeed.”
    Vikas Swarup, Q & A: Slumdog Millionaire

  • #11
    “BLACK AND WHITE


    I was born into
    A religion of Light,
    But with so many other
    Religions and
    Philosophies,
    How do I know which
    ONE
    Is right?

    Is it not
    My birthright
    To seek out the light?
    To find Truth
    After surveying all the proof,
    Am I supposed
    To love
    Or fight?
    And why do all those who
    Try to guide me,
    Always start by dividing
    And multiplying me –
    From what they consider
    Wrong or right?
    I thought,
    There were no walls
    For whoever beams truth and light.
    And how can one speak on Light's behalf,
    lf all they do
    Is act black,
    But talk WHITE?”
    Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

  • #13
    “BEWARE OF THOSE

    Beware of those who are bitter,
    For they will never allow you
    To enjoy your fruit.

    Beware of those who criticize you
    When you deserve some praise for an achievement,
    For they secretly desire to be worshiped.

    Beware of those who are needy or stingy,
    For they would rather sting you
    Than give you anything.

    Beware of those who are always hungry,
    For they will feed you to the wolves
    Just to get paid.

    Beware of those who speak negatively
    About everything and everybody,
    For a negative person will never say
    A positive thing about you.

    Beware of those who are bored
    And not passionate about life,
    For they will bore you with reasons
    For not living.

    Beware of those who are too focused with
    Polishing and beautifying their outer shells,
    For they lack true substance to understand
    That genuine beauty is in the heart
    That resides inside.

    Beware of those who step in the path of your dreams,
    For they only dream to have the ability
    To take half your steps.

    Beware of those who steer you away
    From your heart’s true happiness,
    For it would make them happy to see you
    Steer yourself next to them,
    Sitting with both your hearts bitter.

    Those who are critical don’t like being criticized,
    And those who are insensitive have a deficiency in their senses.

    And finally,
    Beware of those who tell you to BEWARE.
    They are too aware of everything –
    And live alone, scared.

    Poetry by Suzy Kassem”
    Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

  • #14
    “SEASONS OF LIFE

    Sometimes I fall
    And feel myself slowly wilt and die,
    But then I suddenly spring back on my feet
    To go play in the sun outside.
    I am no different than the weather,
    The planets or the trees;
    For there do not always have to be reasons
    For the seasons turning inside of me.
    The magnetism that swirls
    In the sky, land, and sea
    Are the exact same currents found twirling
    In the electric ocean within me.
    I am a moving vessel of energy.
    And if my emotions do not
    Flow up, down,
    Within and around,
    Then I am not alive.”
    Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

  • #15
    “Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.


    PART SUN AND MOON by Suzy Kassem”
    Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

  • #16
    “REMEMBER YOUR GREATNESS

    Before you were born,
    And were still too tiny for
    The human eye to see,
    You won the race for life
    From among 250 million competitors.
    And yet,
    How fast you have forgotten
    Your strength,
    When your very existence
    Is proof of your greatness.
    You were born a winner,
    A warrior,
    One who defied the odds
    By surviving the most gruesome
    Battle of them all.
    And now that you are a giant,
    Why do you even doubt victory
    Against smaller numbers,
    And wider margins?
    The only walls that exist,
    Are those you have placed in your mind.
    And whatever obstacles you conceive,
    Exist only because you have forgotten
    What you have already
    Achieved.”
    Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

  • #22
    “Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.”
    Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

  • #23
    Marguerite Duras
    “I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.”
    Marguerite Duras, The Lover

  • #24
    Marguerite Duras
    “I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think.”
    Marguerite Duras, The Lover

  • #25
    Marguerite Duras
    “Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.”
    Marguerite Duras, Writing



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