"In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian."

-- Vikram Seth

#Temptation Quotes #Spite Quotes #Belonging Quotes

“The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.”
“Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.”
“My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yoursâ€¦ it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known to each of us more powerfully and personally. If this is true, it means that to lose track of our stories is to be profoundly impoverished not only humanly but also spiritually.”
“One of the misconceptions about BlackBerry is that it's your parents' smartphone.”
“The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get.”
“As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.”
“[Virginia] has a very sizeable collection of democrats, liberals and moonbats. (Yes, they can be separated.)”
“We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that we, forced to be gladiators, fight for it.”

Source : Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.252, Granta Books

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