"With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open a woman's hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed."

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Source : Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd

Aravind Adiga

#Dark Quotes #Hands Quotes #Eggs Quotes

“Do right. Fear Nothing.”

Source : Andrew Klavan (2012). “Crazy Dangerous”, p.328, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. Biologists must be encouraged to think about the weaknesses and extrapolations that theoreticians put forward or lay down as established truths. The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and falsity of their beliefs.”
“A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.”
“I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that.”
“I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.”

Source : "Rene Russo Goes Two For the Money". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. October 7, 2005.
“I don't want to pursue someone at all - I want someone to pursue me.”
“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.”

Source : Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.25, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Sometimes I am God, if I say a man dies, he dies that same day.”

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