Shamim E. Haque

“There’s a loss of personality; Or rather, you’ve lost touch with the person You thought you were. You no longer feel quite human. You’re suddenly reduced to the status of an object — A living object, but no longer a person. It’s always happening, because one is an object As well as a person. But we forget about it As quickly as we can. When you’ve dressed for a party And are going downstairs, with everything about you Arranged to support you in the role you have chosen, Then sometimes, when you come to the bottom step There is one step more than your feet expected And you come down with a jolt. Just for a moment You have the experience of being an object At the mercy of a malevolent staircase.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Complete Poems and Plays

“We are immoderate because grief is immoderate, all the hundreds and thousands of kinds of grief.”
― Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater

“The three main elements of public relations are practically as old as society: informing people, persuading people, or integrating people with people. Of course, the means and methods of accomplishing these ends have changed as society has change.

-Public Relations (1952)”
― Edward Bernays

“সকলের ভেতরেই বোধহয় এইরকম আরো একটা আলাদা সংসার পাতা থাকে, সেখানে সে তার খেলার পুতুলের জন্য নিজের যথাসর্বস্ব দ্যায়, এক টুকরো ভাঙা কাচের জন্য বুক ভরে কাঁদে, নিছক কাগজের নৌকা ডুবে গেলে একেবারে সর্বস্বান্ত হয়ে যায়...”
― Mahmudul Haque, কালো বরফ