"Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should love each other, there shouldn't be boundaries or fundamentalism. But I think literature is more than that; these are political views which most of us hold anyway."

-- Arundhati Roy

#Thinking Quotes #Views Quotes #Political Quotes

“Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible”
“Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.”
“The cat with gloves catches no mice.”
“The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 15, 2016
“I love Liverpool. The people are wonderful and I feel very much at home there.”

Source : Interview with Leo Moynihan, uk.askmen.com.
“Healing requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual and even our emotional resources. And it certainly demands that we do more than look backwards at the dead-end archives of our past. Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life.”
“A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.”

Source : Alyson Richman (2014). “The Garden of Letters”, p.159, Penguin
“People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.”

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