"Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships"

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Source : Ruskin Bond, Ruskin (2008). “Ruskin Bond's Book of Nature”, p.38, Penguin Books India

Ruskin Bond

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“A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.”

Source : Kobo Abe (2011). “The Woman in the Dunes”, p.94, Vintage
“I'm confident that I can steal rounds by getting inside and throwing punches.”
“Ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.”
“It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all.”
“Good scripts are hard to find.”
“It is only as powerful as it is relevant in a given scenario. I think we need to be clear it is not a magic bullet in post-conviction cases.”
“Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.”

Source : "Shackleton". Book by Roland Huntford, 2013.
“You are actually constructing... what your head understood about what your eyes saw.”

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