"I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell."

-- Aravind Adiga

#Want Quotes #Wordsworth Quotes

“When we encounter suffering, it is important to respond w/ compassion rather than to question the politics of those we help.”
“I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!”
“And I'm still alive. That's what I have to focus on. Because I want to live. Even now I can't let myself give up. And that's something I didn't know about myself before - that I have such dogged determination and strength. That I can be completely focused on a goal and work long past what I thought my endurance was, when I have to.”
“This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We see that every day.”
“In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.”
“You know what mom told me once? She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them.”
“In my opinion, it's more interesting to see magic happening in a world that feels grounded. If the world is already crazy, then anything can happen. So it's better to start with something real.”

Source : "Michel Gondry Pinch Hits For Tokyo!" by Ayako Fujitani and Ryo Kase, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 6, 2009.
“Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 23, 2016

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