"You see, you cannot draw lines and compartments, and refuse to budge beyond them, sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success"

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Source : Rohinton Mistry (2008). “A Fine Balance”, p.232, Faber & Faber

Rohinton Mistry

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“As the warden of San Quentin, I presided over four executions. After each one, someone on the staff would ask, 'Is the world safer because of what we did tonight?' We knew the answer: No.”
“Where is automatism in the work of Chirico or Tanguy? Even Dali had to renounce it in order to be able to organize the space of the canvas according to the combined laws of dreams and pictorial aesthetics.”

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“Thermonuclear fusion is an absolute requirement, for the preservation of the human species.”

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“During the modern period, the vanguard architect has usually relied on small residential jobs both to supply a steady income and to serve as 'sketches' for ideas that are often later translated to the larger scale of public commissions.”

Source : Luis Fernández Galiano, Martin Filler (2000). “El siglo americano: The American century”
“When it comes to dating, you're not as crazy as you think you are.”
“When I went to the Hall of Fame in 2000 and was inducted, it was a travesty the kind of carnage I saw out of these guys who were in their 50s and 60s, who had defined and in many ways laid the foundation for the NFL being what it is today.”
“You can't win unless you learn how to lose.”
“Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.”

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