"They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace. Men without curiosity. Without doubt. Both in their own way truly, terrifyingly, adult. They looked out into the world and never wondered how it worked, because they knew. They worked it. They were mechanics who serviced different parts of the same machine."

-- Arundhati Roy

#Men Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.”
“May we now all rise and sing the eternal school hymn: "Attack. Attack. Attack Attack Attack!"”
“The most important lesson is probably to spend less than you earn.”
“If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.”

Source : "Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: 'It's not possible to write a neutral story'". Interview with Amelia Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.
“For two years now, my office has had the honour and the privilege of sponsoring seminars on the functioning of government in this country for Eastern Europeans. These seminars and exchanges have brought together representatives from such nations as Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republic, Roumania, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and the Ukraine, all of them anxious to learn what makes a society as diverse as Canada work and how our institutions make it governable.”

Source : "The House of Commons at Work". Book by John Fraser, 1993.
“There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.”

Source : "Katie Cassidy Interview - HARPER'S ISLAND". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. April 11, 2009.
“Tukhachevsky hid Napoleon's baton in his rucksack.”
“A Bat meeting any one running away, signifies an evasion: for although she have no wings, yet she flies.”

Source : Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Von Nettesheim (1992). “The Philosophy of Natural Magic”, p.169, Health Research Books

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