"Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'. It's vanity, nothing more. Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, 'what a navigator I am!' And then the wind blows you east."

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Source : Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum”, p.16, Portobello Books

Katherine Boo

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“Writing is still on my slate.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“And I come to realise that all my small todays, the way I act, will lead into my tomorrows.”
“I was the class clown, but I was a reluctant class clown because I was always and still am somewhat embarrassed by performing. I have terrible stage fright, and I don't like being in front of people.”

Source : "Chris Elliott's unusual career". The Washington Times Interview, www.washingtontimes.com. February 15, 2000.
“I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.”
“If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.”
“Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope.”
“History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.”
“Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.”

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