"Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there."

-- Paul Bourget

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“I felt okay for the first 45 seconds, and then my vision grew fussy. My lungs felt like deflated balloons. I would have sucked oxygen through my ears, if that were possible. I was experiencing oxygen debt, or perhaps better stated, oxygen death.”
“I love the food, the girls, the sky and everything that is Delhi. I have very fond memories of the Moolchand flyover.”
“The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.”
“The smile that covered a "multitude of pains" was no hypocritical mask. She was trying to hide her sufferings - even from God! - so as not to make others, especially the poor, suffer because of them. When she promised to do "a little extra praying & smiling" for one of her friends, she was alluding to an acutely painful and costly sacrifice: to pray when prayer was so difficult and to smile when her interior pain was agonizing.”
“The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.”
“Rock 'n' roll is an attitude, it's not a musical form of a strict sort. It's a way of doing things, of approaching things. Writing can be rock 'n' roll, or a movie can be rock 'n' roll. It's a way of living your life.”
“I don't define myself. I'm just a woman in love with another woman.”

Source : "Sex And The City star Cynthia Nixon plans to marry". www.mirror.co.uk. May 12, 2008.
“Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.”

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