"How will the ships navigate without stars? And then he remembered that the stars were dead, long dead, and the light they shed was not to be trusted, was false, if not an outright lie, and in any case was inadequate, unequal to its task, which was to illuminate the evil that men did."

-- Jeet Thayil

#Stars Quotes #Lying Quotes #Men Quotes

“When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.”
“Democracy, like life, is hard to learn and doesn't have a teacher,”
“We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.”
“You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their funeral speeches; perfecting their rituals of death rather than a relatively simple ritual of life such as screaming in the streets.”

Source : David Wojnarowicz (2017). “Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration”, p.113, Canongate Books
“No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.”
“They would all be sorry... particularly the duck.”

Source : Angie Sage (2012). “Magyk: Septimus Heap”, p.348, A&C Black
“We have come a long way and we have a little further to go.”

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