"The car has made our lives more difficult. If not for it, we would have everything we needed within walking distance."

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Source : "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.

Siddharth Katragadda

#Distance Quotes #Car Quotes #Made Quotes

“For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles of giant weeds, over sun-flickered spaces and on and on into gloom, cold, deep, inscrutable; suddenly she shoots to the surface and sports on the wind-wrinkled waves; that is, has a positive need to brush, scrape, kindle herself, gossiping.”
“Kobe [Bryant] had the biggest contract for a high school kid. He was the first one to get more than a million a year.”
“I'm the world's worst bearer of grudges. I'm sure I'll be bearing grudges and paying off old scores on my death-bed.”
“When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.”
“An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.”
“I am good in the fact that most of my reviews have been very positive really. I get pretty good reviews. There have been some that aren't - critical. I think they are extremely - the people that wrote them really don't understand what they are looking at quite frankly or have a very preconceived notion of what conceptual art should be or where I am at or the fact that I may change what I have done from what I did 20 years ago. But there is always some reason that they just sort of get it wrong. And so it certainly doesn't affect my work.”
“Maybe they say they do but I don't think many actors really enjoy trying to do a Shakespearean play.”
“If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.”

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