"It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.”
“Being brought up in a Christian home and still identifying as Christian, I get pretty annoyed with the Christian lobbies around the world who say gay marriage destroys the family and all that kind of rubbish. They claim to follow someone who always stood up for the oppressed and marginalised.”
“Everyone can use a little beauty.”

Source : Alex Flinn (2015). “Four Beastly Kendra Chronicles Collection: Beastly, Lindy's Diary, Bewitching, Mirrored”, p.73, HarperCollins
“Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely when the teacher is also a bandit.”
“The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide.”

Source : "Prajna Sutra". Book by Subhas Kak, 2007.
“The time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us today... ...some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak.”
“We have very stable, solid economy; we are going through challenging times.”
“I made my excuses and left, thinking, really, after a certain age, people are just going to do what they're going to do and you're either going to accept them as they are or you're not.”

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