“Mahatma Gandhi was known for walking hundreds of miles barefoot. Over time, he developed incredibly thick calluses on his feet, stronger than the soles of many boots. He also ate lightly and fasted often, which left him frail and gave him chronically bad breath. And do you know what this made him? A super-calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.”
― The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics
― The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. —Milan Kundera A”
― Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up
― Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up
“Not to pun at all would be more challenging than most people might imagine.”
― The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics
― The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics
“You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
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