"Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction."

-- Nadine Gordimer

#Writing Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Truthful Quotes

“Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.”
“Meditation is a way of moving into the unlimited dimension of who you are - it is the ultimate freedom.”
“As long as you fight, you cannot lose... if you leave everything out there, it doesn't matter if you win or lose. To me you can never lose.”

Source : "In the company of women" by Tim Lott, www.theguardian.com. June 01, 2012.
“A great conductor possesses that certain charisma and talent that demand the ears and the attention of an audience. I can't tell you how that happens, but I'm sure it has an inner basis that is never learned.”
“The ones I loved fly as birds in the open sky above me. Soaring, weaving, calling to me to join them. I want so badly to follow them, but the seawater saturates my wings, making it impossible to lift them. The ones I hated have taken to the water, horrible scaled things that tear my salty flesh with needle teeth. Biting again and again. Dragging me beneath the surface.”
“There are no bystanders in a dharmayudh - it is a holy war.”
“Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.”
“History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution.”

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