"In other words, my literary agenda begins by acknowledging that America has transformed me. It does not end until I show how I (and the hundreds of thousands like me) have transformed America."

-- Bharati Mukherjee

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“Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.”
“There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.”

Source : "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 81, 1799.
“When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.”

Source : Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.106, Criss Jami
“The question at hand is the danger posed to truth by computer-manipulated photographic imagery. How do we approach this question in a period in which the veracity of even the straight, unmanipulated photograph has been under attack for a couple of decades.”
“I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. [â€¦] I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.”

Source : Preface to the second edition of "The Art of Worldly Wisdom" by Kenneth Rexroth, 1953.
“The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.”
“I would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits.”
“Don't engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming.”

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