"We are born in innocence. ... Corruption comes later. The first fear is a corruption, the first reaching for something that defies us. The first nuance of difference, the first need to feel better than the different one, more loved, stronger, richer, more blessed -- these are corruptions."

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Source : Laura Z. Hobson (2011). “Gentleman's Agreement”, p.106, Open Road Media

Laura Z. Hobson

#Blessed Quotes #Feel Better Quotes #Differences Quotes

“Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.”

Source : Richard Harris Barham (1867). “The Ingoldsby legends; or, Mirth and marvels, by Thomas Ingoldsby. Carmine ed”, p.226
“I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As an historical novelist â€“ there are few jobs more retrospective.”
“If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.”
“When I started competing, you had to have your coach there. Now you can be coached from a home office via Skype or video. That's not the same as having them on the field with you.”
“Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.”
“Goddammit. Yeah, I have. First, there's a huge difference between being arrested and being guilty. Second, see, the law changes and I don't. How I stand vis-Ã -vis the law at any given moment depends on the law. The law can change from state to state, from nation to nation, from city to city. I guess I have to go by a higher law. How's that? Yeah, I consider myself a road man for the lords of karma.”
“We come together only to go apart again. The law of life can't be avoided. The law comes into operation the moment we detach ourselves from our mother's womb. All struggle & misery in life is due to our attempt to arrest this law or get away from it or in allowing ourselves to be hurt by it. The fact must be recognized. A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life. All else is false. The law of life. No sense in battling against it...”

Source : R. K. Narayan (2000). “Memories of Malgudi”, p.274, Penguin Books India

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