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“She said my problem was that I saw things in people that they didn’t see in themselves.”
― Riot
― Riot
“You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits”
― Managing Oneself
― Managing Oneself
“Pakistan was created by Jinnah’s will and Britain’s willingness’—not by Nehru’s wilfulness.”
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
“When the Good Lord begins to doubt the world, he remembers that he created Provence”
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“Tolstoy, Stendhal and Cervantes, these men follow me around. They stand in dark corners and eye me disapprovingly from beneath supercilious eyebrows. And all because I’ve never got round to reading their blasted, thousand-page, three-ton, five-generation, state-of-a-nation thingummywhatsits. I don’t care. Or rather, sometimes I do, and at other times I remember that I’m a tortoise-slow reader and that there’s a pub just around the corner.”
― The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the delight of not getting what you wanted
― The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the delight of not getting what you wanted
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