"I had seen how in an instant, those you called friends could suddenly become tormentors, sniffing out a weakness or a difference, turning their own fear of ostracism into a weapon with which they could beat the victim away, afraid that being an outsider, and individual even, was somehow infectious."

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Source : Meera Syal (1996). “Anita and Me”, Indus

Meera Syal

#Differences Quotes #Mentor Quotes #Weapons Quotes

“A gloss is a total system of perception and language.”
“Everything I write means a lot to me because it is my head on paper.”

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“I love Prada. Not so much the clothes, which are for malnourished thirteen-year-olds, but I covet, with covety covetousness, the shoes and handbags. Like, I LOVE them. If I was given a choice between world peace and a Prada handbag, I'd dither. (I'm not proud of this, I'm only saying.)”
“It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the absurdity and preposterous reality that is accepted amongst the ones who are inside.”
“Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.”
“Donâ€™t compare yourself to others. Thatâ€™s when you start to lose confidence in yourself.”
“So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.”
“I've got to say that I don't see myself as some sort of political type like Alec Baldwin or Barbra Streisand. I don't want to come across like that. I'd be embarrassed if that was the way I came across.”

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