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“Foolish wise folk sneer at you; foolish wise folk would pull up the useless lilies, the needless roses, from the garden, would plant in their places only serviceable wholesome cabbage. But the Gardener knowing better, plants the silly short-lived flowers; foolish wise folk, asking for what purpose.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

“Nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a Base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

“She gave a little jump and hung in the air a little way above the rug, then she slowly began to be drawn downwards and dropped ..”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes for both.”
― Julian Barnes, Levels of Life

“It was an unnecessarily pretty sunset.”
― Shrilal Shukla, राग दरबारी

“The emphasis is on the lost, the abandoned, the discarded sinners, God’s detritus.”
― Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“-स्वामीजी, दुसरे देशो में लोग गाय की पूजा नही करते, पर उसे अच्छी तरह रखते है और वह बहुत खूब दूध देती है।
- बच्चा , दूसरे देशो की बात छोडो। हम उनसे बहुत ऊँचे है। देवता इसीलिय सिर्फ हमारे यहाँ अवतार लेते है। दुसरे देशो में गाय दूध के उपयोग के लिए होती है, हमारे यहाँ दँगा करने, आंदोलन करने के लिए होती है। हमारी गाय और गायो से भिन्न है।
- स्वामीजी, और सब समस्याएं छोड़कर आप लोग इसी एक काम में क्यों लग गए है?
- इसी से सब हो जाएगा बच्चा! अगर गोरक्षा का क़ानून बन जाए तो यह देश अपने आप समृध्द हो जाएगा। फ़िर बादल समय पर पानी बरसाएंगे, भूमि खूब अन्न देगी और कारखाने बिना चले भी उत्पादन करेंगे। धर्म का प्रताप तुम नही जानते। अभी जो देश की दुर्दशा है, वह गौ के अनादर के कारण ही है।
- एक और बात बताइये। कई राज्यो में गौ रक्षा के लिए क़ानून है बाकी में समाप्त हो जाएगा। आगे आप किस बात पर आंदोलन करेंगे?
- अरे बच्चा, आंदोलन के लिए बहुत विषय है। सिंह दुर्गा का वाहन है। उसे सर्कस वाले पिंजरे में बंद करके रखते है और उससे खेल कराते है। यह अधर्म है। सब सर्कसो के खिलाफ आंदोलन करके, देश के सारे सर्कस बन्द करवा देंगे। फिर भगवान का एक अवतार मत्स्यावतर भी है। मछली भगवान का प्रतीक है। हम मछुओ के खोलाफ आंदोलन छेड़ देंगे। सरकार का मत्स्यपालन विभाग बन्ध करवा देंगे।
- स्वामीजी उल्लू लक्ष्मी जी का वाहन है। उसके लिए भी तो कुछ करना चाहिये।
- यह सब उसीके लिए तो कर रहे है, बच्चा! इस देश में उल्लू को कोई कष्ट नही है। वह मजे में है।”
― Harishankar Parsai, निठल्ले की डायरी

“Love is anti-mechanical, anti-materialist: that’s why bad love is still good love. It may make us unhappy, but it insists that the mechanical and the material needn’t be in charge”
― Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

“History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.”
― Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

“You are in love, at a point where pride and apprehension scuffle within you. Part of you wants time to slow down: for this, you say to yourself, is the best period of your whole life. I am in love, I want to savour it, study it, lie around in languor with it; may today last forever. This is your poetical side. However, there is also your prose side, which urges time not to slow down but hurry up. How do you know this is love, your prose side whispers like a sceptical lawyer, it’s only been around for a few weeks, a few months. You won’t know it’s the real thing unless you (and she) still feel the same in, oh, a year or so at least; that’s the only way to prove you aren’t living a dragonfly mistake. Get through this bit, however much you enjoy it, as fast as possible; then you’ll be able to find out whether or not you’re really in love.”
― Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

“I love you.’ For a start, we’d better put these words on a high shelf; in a square box behind glass which we have to break with our elbow; in the bank. We shouldn’t leave them lying around the house like a tube of vitamin C. If the words come too easily to hand, we’ll use them without thought; we won’t be able to resist. Oh, we say we won’t, but we will. We’ll get drunk, or lonely, or – likeliest of all – plain damn hopeful, and there are the words gone, used up, grubbied”
― Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

“There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”
― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“He must have known I'd want to leave you."
"No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“In fact, while we read a novel, we are insane – bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there, we hear their voices, we watch the battle of Borodino with them, we may even become Napoleon. Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“For a moment, as I listened to her, I felt as if I could step through the distance between us and hear an echo of the world through her ears, see the stars through her eyes: an austere clarity that made my heart leap.”
― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

“In polite democratic society its important to note stratification but impolite to label the layers.”
― Paul Beatty, Slumberland

“Lying is universal—we all do it. Therefore, the wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling. Then shall we be rid of the rank and pestilent truth that is rotting the land; then shall we be great and good and beautiful, and worthy dwellers in a world where even benign Nature habitually lies, except when she promises execrable weather. Then—But am I but a new and feeble student in this gracious art; I cannot instruct this club.”
― Mark Twain, On the Decay of the Art of Lying

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose above the great mountainous island of Tremalking. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.”
― Robert Jordan, The Path of Daggers

“Perhaps, Yuan, such laws as this are only keys to unlock a door to a closed garden, and we must throw the key recklessly away and go forth into that garden boldly by imagination—or call it faith,”
― Pearl S. Buck, Sons