"People often need to describe things quickly and so they use a shorthand. The problem is that after they use a label, they begin to think only in terms of the label instead of the totality of the experience a novel provides."

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Akhil Sharma

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Use Quotes

“When I look in the mirror I see my parents' sacrifices being honored. I see the love from which I was created and the power of the human spirit.”
“Its a rare thing when a father and son can share the same experience. My father and I have seen all 19 Bond films together, two or three times.”
“I like being the villian. I don't know if it has to do with my personality. You get to have a lot more fun as a villian. You don't have to stick to the rules. You can be a lot crazier. You can go off the rails.”

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“As I change my thoughts, the world around me changes.”
“There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face.”
“Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.”
“It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.”
“Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.”

Source : Ellen Potter (2010). “The Kneebone Boy”, p.35, Macmillan

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