"I... allowed my memory to journey back to the days when I was a boy of ten, full of health and optimism, when my wonder at the great game of living had yet to give way to disillusionment at its shabbiness."

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Source : Ruskin Bond (1988). “The Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories”, p.80, Penguin Books India

Ruskin Bond

#Memories Quotes #Boys Quotes #Journey Quotes

“I ... am endeavoring ... to attend to my own duty only as a Christian. ... let us take care that our Christianity, though put to the test ... be not shaken, and that our love for things really good wax not cold.”
“Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, and that is fact.”
“A couple years ago, I felt like I was in a dead end, and I kept asking myself, "How do you get out of a dead end?" People would say the answer is, "You just turn around." But that was not the answer that I was going to accept. I realized, for me, that getting out of a dead end was literally the world turning upside down, and I had to fall out of the dead end. So you have to surrender, so I've really learned how to surrender, practice unconditional love. With my art, I've always put out things I love.”
“Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.”
“I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.”
“Every time you and I bow our heads in surrender to the will of God, we embrace the cross and we manifest to the world the heart of Christ who bowed His head to the will of His Father.”
“There is always that one band that comes along when you are 14 or 15 years old that manages to hit you in just the right way and changes your whole perception of things”

Source : "Progress Report: Arctic Monkeys". Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.stereogum.com. May 31, 2011.
“AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.”

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