"I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture."

-- Taslima Nasrin

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“I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.”

Source : Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.70, Infobase Publishing
“When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.”
“Death - Death can be faced, dealt with, adjusted to, outlived. It's the not knowing that destroys interminably... This being suspended in suspense; waiting - weightless, How does one face the faceless, adjust to nothing? Waiting implies something to wait for. Is there? There is One. One who knows... I rest my soul on that.”

Source : Ruth Bell Graham (2007). “Footprints of a Pilgrim”, p.138, Thomas Nelson Inc
“The only person you have to convince is yourself.”
“There has been little or no mention of the vast body of law which contradicts your position. I think you owe it to the people whom you address to explain its existence.”
“Divine Spirit has a way of doing exactly what is right for everyone concerned at the moment.”
“I am haunted by waters.”
“There's a lathered sorrel stallion running through the Joshua trees and a young man in the saddle with his coat tails in the breeze. He's got a six gun on his right hip and a rifle at his knees and he's dealing in a game that he can't win.”

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