"To use the past to justify the present is bad enoughâ€”but itâ€™s just as bad to use the present to justify the past."

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Source : Amitav Ghosh (2001). “The Glass Palace: A Novel”, p.468, Random House

Amitav Ghosh

#Past Quotes #Use Quotes #Enough Quotes

“As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.”
“I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any”
“My mum doesn't enjoy sometimes listening to me tell staff off, and I say to my mum, it's a kitchen, not a hair-dressing salon.”
“One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.”
“It's easy for me to work with other girls because I'm a tomboy and I don't want the guy, your boyfriend - I'm not interested in looking better than you, so don't worry. Fail or win, whatever it is, I need to go do stuff.”
“The threat of a world war is no more.”
“Religion is not an experiment, it is an experience of life through which one is part of the cosmic adventure.”
“... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within which his genius condenses into achievements.”

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