Niraj

“Shakespeare was not a genius. He was, without the distant shadow of doubt, the most wonderful writer who ever breathed. But not a genius. No angels handed him his lines, no fairies proofread for him. Instead, he learnt techniques, he learnt tricks, and he learnt them well.”
― Mark Forsyth, The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase

“Yet the past is ever with us and all that we are and that we have comes from the past. We are its products and we live immersed in it. Not to understand it and feel it as something living within us is not to understand the present. To combine it with the present and extend it to the future, to break from it where it cannot be so united, to make of all this the pulsating and vibrating material for thought and action—that is life.”
― Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India

“Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads”
― Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera : La Nueva Mestiza

“Listening is hard, as my friend once said, because you run the risk of having to change the way you see the world.”
― Zia Haider Rahman, In the Light of What We Know