"Itâ€™s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone."

-- Zadie Smith

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“It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some effort. And unfortunately people think of beauty as luxury, beauty as frivolity, ... or extravagance. Beauty is a discipline, beauty is art, is harmony, in the ideological sense and in the theological sense, beauty is God and love made real. And the ultimate reach in this world is beauty.”

Source : "Imelda". Documentary, Biography, 2003.
“Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.”
“What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.”
“It seems to me that the real clue to your sexual orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy sex with him.”

Source : Interview with Winston Leyland on 1973. "Conversations with Christopher Isherwood". Book edited by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, p. 106, 2001.
“I enjoy being me; I always have done. I've seen people where it rules their lives, you know, who want to be thinner or have bigger boobs, and it wears them down. And I don't want that in my life. It's never been an issue - at least, I've never hung out with the sort of horrible people who would make it an issue. I have insecurities, of course, but I don't hang out with anyone who points them out to me.”
“I wanna be the smile you put on your face. I wanna be your hands when you say your grace. I wanna be whatever is your favorite place, oh I just wanna be close”

Source : Song: Wanna Be Close, Album: Private Room, 2003
“Everything I went through," he said. "For you. It was worth it.”

Source : Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.423, Pan Macmillan
“All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.”

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