Debottam

“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
― Sue Grafton

“People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”
― Mo Yan

“We were rooted in the archaic past, nothing radical about us, our bodies, or needs had changed since the first human saw the light of day somewhere in Africa forty thousand years ago or however long Homo sapiens had existed. But we imagined it was different, and so strong was our imaginative power we not only believed that but we also organized ourselves accordingly, as we sat getting drunk in our cafés and darkened clubs, and dancing our dances that presumably were even more clumsy than those performed, shall we say, twenty-five thousand years ago in the glow of a fire somewhere along the Mediterranean coast.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, A Man in Love

“From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from a single attribute of man—the function of his reasoning mind.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead