"In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it."

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Tahir Shah

#Confusing Quotes #India Quotes #Explanation Quotes

“A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the angels will take the best of her or the worst. Only time will tell if the woman that remains will be bitter, dispirited or aged to perfection.”
“In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.”
“A maiden's first kiss cometh hard, yea, it is as the first olive out of a bottle, requiring much skill; but the rest are easy.”
“Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting?”
“Well, we're meant to be writing stories today,”
“I look at the world through the wrong end of a telescope.”
“The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.”

Source : Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.13, BookBaby
“The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.”

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