"The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists."

-- Robert Payne

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“To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders.”
“But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.”

Source : Arthur Phillips (2009). “The Song Is You: A Novel”, p.42, Random House
“In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.”
“Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part.”
“Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.”

Source : "National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Must Go!" by Jon Scieszka, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for.”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.73, Granta Books
“The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse.”
“The pure mystic wishes to approach his God only in the all-embracing love. The yogi, too, walks toward one single aspect of God. The bhakti-yogi keeps to the road of love and devotion, the raja and hatha yogi choose the path of self-control or volition, the jnana yogi will follow that of wisdom and cognition.”

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