"You cannot expect any rational thought from a religious man. He is like a rocking log in water ."

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Source : Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 50, 2005.

Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

#Religious Quotes #Men Quotes #Water Quotes

“...."the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus, played on a distant piano over and over again, melting in the sun on the white pavement, lost in the fire of high noon.”

Source : Bruno Schulz (1963). “Cinnamon Shops: And Other Stories”
“I got dead bodies rotting in my Benz trunk. Trunk of funk, I call it.”
“The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.”
“Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.”
“I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper...that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and wasteful in my pursuit of Him.”
“The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.”
“My god, people are selling their work and people are reading it! The horror! That MFA programs have to advertise that they'll let you write YA or fantasy or what-have-you is just absurd, but we do, because the presumption is that they're closed to that sort of thing. You're offering an MFA in creative writing? Teach people how to write well, worry about that part, let the writers come up with the stories.”
“I have too much imagination to be a housewife”

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