"When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt â€” we are phantoms in the memories of our descendants. Then we are ghosts, my dear, then we are myths. But still we are together. We are the past together, we are a distant past. Beneath the dome of the mysterious stars, I still hear your voice."

-- Jostein Gaarder

#Stars Quotes #Memories Quotes #Past Quotes

“There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”

Source : Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.330, Penguin Books India
“But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.”
“People don't want to be millionaires - they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.”
“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.”

Source : Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“I'm not looking for much, I just want, like, a really nice guy who has, you know, like a job... and the missing half of this golden amulet.”
“In the first act, you get the audience's attention - once you have it, they will repay you in the second. Play through the laughs if you have to. It will only make the audience believe there are so many of them that they missed a few.”
“This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?”
“We know how to punish retailers and manufacturers that don't provide quality and value. But we're lousy at fighting effectively for what we really need - reliable insurance policies; affordable health care; safe, healthy food.”

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