"I had always felt that I was an observer, never a participant; that I was watching from behind a thick glass wall as people went about the business of living--and did it with such ease, with a skill that they took for granted and that I had never known."

-- Tana French

#Wall Quotes #Glasses Quotes #Skills Quotes

“At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it.”
“The public forgot Bofors, soon they will forget this as well”
“Pakistan would be confident after their series win over England. The series will be a very close and good contest and if all the players play to their potential we're in for some wonderful cricket.”
“There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.”

Source : "Angela Davis: 'There is an unbroken line of police violence in the US that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2014.
“99% of my life I was lied to. I just found out my mom does more dope than I do(Damn!). I told her I'd grow up to be a famous rapper, make a record about doing drugs and name it after her (-Oh, thank you!).”
“It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!”
“I remember that feeling of skin. It's strange to remember touch more than thought. But my fingers still tingle with it.”
“People like to do politics with me, and they like to do business.”

Source : "Terry McAuliffe has reinvented the rules of fund raising and shattered all records, and he has become rich along the way. Is he the poster boy for reform?" by Michael Weisskopf, www.cnn.com. May 30, 2000.

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