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    Arundhati Roy
    “Who can know from the word goodbye what kind of parting is in store for us.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
    tags: arundhati-roy, fiction, goodbye
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    Arundhati Roy
    “She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
    tags: arundhati-roy, love, self-acceptance, self-love, the-god-of-small-things
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    Arundhati Roy
    “Et tu, Caesar? Then fall, Caesar.
    Et tu, Estha? Then fall, Estha.”
    ― Arundhati Roy , The God of Small Things
    tags: arundhati-roy, caeser, estha, kochu-maria, rahel
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    Michael Caine
    “...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”
    ― Michael Caine
    tags: criminals, evil, insanity, the-dark-knight
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    Carl Sandburg
    “If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell”
    ― Carl Sandburg
    tags: humor
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    Arundhati Roy
    “At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.

    Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers?”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
    tags: arundhati-roy, capitalism, corporations, dam, economics, environmental-degradation, equality, exploitation, false-gods, government, government-corruption, human-rights, india, inspirational, narmada-valley, nationalism, reality, truth, women
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    Arundhati Roy
    “Searching for the Man who lives in him was perhaps what he really meant, because certainly no beast has essayed the boundless, infinitely inventive art of human hatred. No beast can match its range and power.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
    tags: arundhati-roy, evil, evil-men, hatred, humans, the-god-of-small-things
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    Arundhati Roy
    “That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
    tags: words
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    Arundhati Roy
    “...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again.

    That is their mystery and their magic.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
    tags: stories
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    Arundhati Roy
    “And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
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    Arundhati Roy
    “If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
    tags: dreaming, happyiness
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    Arundhati Roy
    “This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: violence
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: humor
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: intelligence
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    Isaac Asimov
    “They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky
    tags: epistemology
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    Isaac Asimov
    “As a robot I could have lived forever. But I tell you all today I would rather die a man, than live for all eternity as a machine.”
    ― Issac Asimov
    tags: death, life, philosophy
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    Isaac Asimov
    “When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.”
    ― Issac Asimov
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  • #21
    Orhan Pamuk
    “Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. ”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
    tags: books, insight, sorrow
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    Francesco Petrarca
    “How do you know, poor fool? Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence'; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.”
    ― Francesco Petrarch, Petrarch: The Canzoniere, or Rerum vulgarium fragmenta
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    Francesco Petrarca
    “Blessed be the eyes that saw her while she lived!� 310”
    ― Francesco Petrarca, The Poetry of Petrarch
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    Jaun Elia
    “!! پاکستان۔۔۔ یہ سب علی گڑھ کے لونڈوں کی شرارت تھی۔۔۔”
    ― Jaun Elia
    tags: ali-gargh, pakistan
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    Ljupka Cvetanova
    “The donkey heard the book gives wisdom and ate it.”
    ― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
    tags: aphorism, donkey, eat, give-quote, illiteracy, illiterate, quote-about-wisdom, stupidity-quotes, wisdom
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    George Jung
    “So in the end, was it worth it? Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last day of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime, I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost not enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door.”
    ― George Jung
    tags: blow
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Women don't want to be seduced. They want to be seen and listened to. You can't do either of those things if you're thinking up strategies on how to win her over.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars
    tags: feminism, listening, love, relationships, romance, seduction, women
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    Bette Davis
    “When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
    ― Bette Davis
    tags: é, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, misogyny, opinions, speaking-out, stereotypes, women
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    Jane Austen
    “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: apocryphal, feminism
    3889 likes



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