"I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and I don't want to give that up. Everything else is just a bonus and often a distraction from the writing, reading, and traveling that gives me the most pleasure."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Giving Quotes

“...in any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it.”
“I'm all for ERA. I want to see women equal to men - not so damn superior like they've been.”
“The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals.”
“You may have a beautiful philosophy, you may have lofty ideals, but what you will do with your philosophy and ideals is dependent entirely upon what you are inside yourself”

Source : Ervin Seale (1966). “Learn to Live: The Meaning of the Parables”, Devorss & Company
“No matter how beautiful a girl is, she still shits.”
“Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.”
“â€ŽDancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.”
“There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.”

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