Santha Rama Rau famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.
When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects the output.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

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