"Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality."

-- Bharati Mukherjee

#Roots Quotes #Individuality Quotes #Mind Quotes

“My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. Its about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. Its about Washington and the army and the war. Its the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.”
“Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated.”
“I'm sticking with the Heinekens, but doing a few shots here and there.”
“That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.”

Source : Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.14, A&C Black
“Don't be a salary slave! If you are going to do anything in this world, you must start before you are forty, before your period of initiative has ended. Do it now!”
“No path is wholly rough.”
“Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.”
“I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.”

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