"There's this great fashion among writers, especially those who follow the transnational conservatives like V.S. Naipaul, to disavow one's place in the world as a sort of box that has sprung you but is only worthy of your scorn, because it once contained you. And I've been tempted to say foolish things, like "I am an American writer" or "I belong nowhere," but the truth is I'm perfectly proud of identifying as an Indian writer, even if that might hurt my bottom line."

-- Karan Mahajan

#Fashion Quotes #Hurt Quotes #World Quotes

“One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.”

Source : "On Relationships: A Book for Teenagers". Book by Kimberly Kirberger, 1999.
“Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke French to each other. To Strange's surprize Childermass understood perfectly and even addressed one or twoquestions to Minervois in his own language. Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.”
“How did Mike Bibby get on the team? Any Cub Scout with Boy Scouts can do Boy Scoutish things. When Bibby was in the Cub Scouts, he was a Cub Scout. When he was with Vancouver, nobody heard about him. Now that he's with Sacramento... he's on the team. I ain't going.”
“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”

Source : Jay Fields, Shane Harvie, Martin Fowler, Kent Beck (2009). “Refactoring: Ruby Edition”, p.36, Pearson Education
“I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
“That is to say, the inspiration, the interpretive richness of the text is what Elie [Wiesel] does publicly, and his interest in history is his private reserve; he knows that he is not an expert in dissecting the text the way Frank [Moore Cross] does.”

Source : Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org
“For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a busted tire floating by" and "That's an old shoe"?”

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