"Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them."

-- Vikram Seth

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“Actually I'm pretty adamant about, you know, the whole God thing and it seems that skeptics are by and large atheists or something approaching that, which I strongly identify with. So it turned out to be a good thing and I have become enthusiastically part of it.”
“If you don't succeed at first, there's no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again.”
“We live in what's called an open society, which of course means they open our emails, open our phone records, and open our medical records.”
“I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of self-loathing at fairly regular intervals.”
“I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.”

Source : "How a 3-D printed arm gave hope to boy maimed in bomb blast" by Mick Ebeling, www.cnn.com. March 19, 2014.
“I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty.”
“When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.”

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