"Most books germinate within you for a long time before they are ready to come out. I wrote several drafts of the novel over many years and when I finally got to the last one, it didn't take much time."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#Book Quotes #Years Quotes #Long Quotes

“Everyone else on the planet, from the lowest amoebae to the great blue whale, expresses all their component elements in a perfect dance with the world around them. Only human beings have unfulfilled lives.”

Source : Whole Living Magazine, 2004.
“O admirable Mother of God! How many sins have I committed for which thou hast obtained pardon for me, and how many others would I have committed if thou hadst not preserved me? How often have I seen myself on the brink of Hell in obvious danger of falling into it but for thy most benign hand which saved me? How often would the Roaring Lion of Hell have devoured and swallowed up my soul had not the charity of thy heart opposed him? Alas! Without thee, my dearest and my all-good Mother, where should I be today? I should be in the fiery furnace of Hell from which I would never emerge!”
“I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.”
“Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do.”

Source : Interview with Bertan Budak, uk.askmen.com.
“I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.”
“I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.”
“War may break out unexpectedly. Wars are not declared, nowadays. They simply start.”

Source : Source: www.marxists.org
“Wisdom sails with wind and time.”

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