"Truthfully, I guess I would like to be remembered as a great writer and a kind person. I wouldn't mind if an expensive bag were named after me, like Jane Birkin."

-- Mindy Kaling

#Mind Quotes #Bags Quotes #Kind Quotes

“She had come to him to escape her mother's world, a world where all bodies were equal. She had come to him to make her body unique, irreplaceble. But he, too had drawn an equal sign between her and the rest of them: he kissed them all alike, stroked them all alike, made no, absolutely no distiction between Tereza's body and the other bodies. He sent her back to the world she tried to escape, sent to march naked with the other naked women”
“It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.”
“I have kleptomania. But when it gets bad, I take something for it.”
“I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.”
“Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.”
“I first became interested in Ho Chi Minh in 1964-1965 while I was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam as a foreign service officer with the Department of State. The government in Saigon was at the point of collapse and the [Lyndon] Johnson administration was preparing to send U.S. combat troops to prevent a communist victory there. I became convinced that the U.S. effort would not succeed because of the lack of conviction in the Saigon government compared to the discipline and sense of self-sacrifice among the Viet Cong.”
“To vest a few fallible men â€” prosecutors, judges, jurors â€” with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what J. S. Mill called a "moral police," is to make them despotic arbiters of literary products. If one day they ban mediocre books as obscene, another day they may do likewise to a work of genius.”
“There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.”

Source : Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.124, Penguin

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