"It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war."

-- Mark Lawrence

#War Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Winning Quotes

“There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.”
“The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.”
“At the meeting you behaves exactly as Marathi novelists of the last century tell is husbands do in sari shops.”

Source : Sachin Kundalkar (2016). “Cobalt Blue: A Novel”, p.24, New Press, The
“I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.”
“We didnâ€™t deny the obvious, but we didnâ€™t entirely accept it either. I mean, we said hello to it each morning in the foyer. We patted its little head as it made a mess in the backyard, but we never nurtured it. Many nights the obvious showed up at our bedroom door, in its pajamas, unable to sleep, in need of a hug, and we just stared at it like an Armenian, or even worseâ€” hid beneath the covers and pretended not to hear its tiny sobs.”
“No man is hurt but by himself. ...Literally by how he interprets what happens to him. If he focusses on how it could have been better, he will be hurt. If he focusses on how it could have been worse, he will be happy. The same is true for women too.”
“She leaned into my shoulder. "Maybe you don't have to be a Caster to have power." I pushed her hair behind her ear. "Maybe you just have to fall for one.”
“Music creates a certain mood and then people dress accordingly. I think it's all quite closely intertwined.”

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