"The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my Autobiography."

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Source : "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2001.

Siddharth Katragadda

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“People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary, it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.”

Source : "Touchy, feely, Toni" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.
“If I saw a glass of wine repeatedly presented to a man, and he took no notice of it, I should be apt to think that he was blind or uncivil. A juster philosophy might teach me rather to think that my eyes deceived me, and that the offer was not really what I conceived it to be.”
“Choose your companions before you choose your road.”
“Itâ€™s not technically gossip if you start your sentence with â€œIâ€™m really concerned about __________________ ,â€ (fill in the name of the person youâ€™re not gossiping about).”
“In my view, immigrants today aren't any different from immigrants who have come to America throughout our nation's history. They bring new ideas, an entrepreneurial spirit and close family ties. They place a high value on education. And they are eager to achieve the American Dream. ... It's to our benefit to keep our doors open, and to keep enriching our economy and culture. I'd like to see America continue to do so.”
“The happiest girls always have the prettiest nails.”
“It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.”
“When the child is twelve, your wife buys her a splendidly silly article of clothing called a training bra. To train what? I never had a training jock. And believe me, when I played football, I could have used a training jock more than any twelve-year-old needs a training bra.”

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