"He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives."

-- Khaled Hosseini

#Ignorance Quotes #Annoyed Quotes #Arbitrary Quotes

“Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.”
“Not having a schedule is OK if it's your PhD and you plan to spend 14 years on the thing, or if you're a programmer working on the next Duke Nukem and we'll ship when we're good and ready. But for almost any kind of real business, you just have to know how long things are going to take, because developing a product costs money.”
“Because I'm a special gatekeeper. I'm the head gatekeeper. Because, although, as you can see, I'm only a head, I'm also the gatekeeper. Which makes me the head gatekeeper. Which makes me very special, don't you agree?”
“I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.”
“I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.”
“Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.”
“Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.”

Source : "This Week in Fiction: Mohsin Hamid" by Cressida Leyshon, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2012.
“You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn.”

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