"[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar."

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Bharati Mukherjee

#Writing Quotes #Agendas Quotes #Exotic Quotes

“Am I conservative? Yes, I am. I would have thought conservative is very much middle of the road, representative of the aspirational values of the Australian people. The extreme right has connotations with it that I would never seek to identify with.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“In the end, for me, the sole single goal is to write the best novel that I can. Whether or not it gets made or gets purchased.”
“I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it my business only to persevere in His holy presence, wherein I keep myself by a simple attention, and a general fond regard to GOD, which I may call an actual presence of GOD, or, to speak better, an habitual, silent, and secret conversation of the soul with GOD, which often causes me joys and raptures inwardly, and sometimes also outwardly, so great that I am forced to use means to moderate them, and prevent their appearance to others.”
“Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.”

Source : Le Corbusier (2013). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.3, Courier Corporation
“I have no problem dressing up . . . because I know I'm a nice-looking guy. But as far as chains, I definitely feel that's a racial statement. Almost 100% of the guys in the league who are young and black wear big chains. So I definitely don't agree with that at all.”
“He who respects others is respected by them.”
“I was pretty much a child of Monty Python. I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.”
“Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions.”

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