"Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances."

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Source : R. K. Narayan (2009). “Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher”, p.251, Everyman's Library

R.K. Narayan

#Mad Quotes #People Quotes #Together Quotes

“When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go where we've already been. If process drives the outcome we may not know where we're going, but we will know we want to be there.”
“Don't go to the grave with life unused.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Saturday Night's 'Main Event.' That's how I started watching SNL. On accident.”
“We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth.”
“Defense wins championships. A good offense is beat by a good defense, always.”
“Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.”
“The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.”
“Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.”

Source : Ellis Peters (2014). “The Potter's Field”, p.62, Head of Zeus

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