"Writing is a deeply immersive experience.Â When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldnâ€™t notice.Â I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity â€“ writing is a way of escaping the quotidian."

-- Monica Ali

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“The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.”
“I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.”
“You're a sum of all your experiences.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
“I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help me but not so uncontrollable. I longed for His warm presence, times when He seemed moreâ€¦ safe.”
“It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.”
“The search ends with the realization that there is no such thing as enlightenment. By searching, you want to be free from the self, but whatever you are doing to free yourself from the self is the self. How can I make you understand this simple thing? There is no 'how'. If I tell you that, it will only add more momentum to that (search), strengthen that momentum. That is the question of all questions: "How, how, how?"”

Source : "The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti".
“As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable.”

Source : Clifford Geertz (2017). “The Interpretation of Cultures”, p.111, Hachette UK
“By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.”

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