"Come on, a 25-page digression on god? You canâ€™t have that kind of thing, cut it out!â€"

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Jeet Thayil

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“Forney in Where the Heart Is has more fans than any other character Ive played.”
“My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.”
“In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers, On its leaves a mystic language bears.”

Source : James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1859). “The poetical works of James Gates Percival”, p.361
“L.A.: where there's never weather, and walking is a crime. L.A.: where the streetlights and palm trees go on forever, where darkness never comes, like a deal that never goes down, a meeting that's never taken. The City of Angels: where every cockroach has a screenplay and even the winos wear roller skates. It's that kind of town.”

Source : Ian Shoales (1985). “I gotta go: the commentary of Ian Shoales”, Perigee
“I am undeniably afraid of the dark!”
“I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions... Don't take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a skeptical attitude toward anything that is conventional wisdom. Make it justify itself. It usually can't. Be willing to ask questions about what is taken for granted. Try to think things through for yourself.”
“Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.”

Source : Harold D. Lasswell (1986). “Psychopathology and Politics”, p.175, University of Chicago Press
“The Judas of the West has closed the contract and will receive the thirty pieces of silver. . . . Was there ever witnessed such a bare faced corruption in any country before?”

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