"Sadness was so claustrophobic."

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Source : Kiran Desai (2006). “Inheritance of Loss”, p.309, Penguin Books India

Kiran Desai

#Sadness Quotes

“No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me”
“Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different.”

Source : "Chef Jacques Pepin on Food and the Power of Memory" by Sarah Rosenberg and Tom McCarthy, abcnews.go.com. September 15, 2009.
“Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.”
“An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.”
“In the end, everything is found to be wanting.”

Source : Frank Lentricchia (2011). “The Sadness of Antonioni”, p.160, SUNY Press
“The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.”
“Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.”
“What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is.”

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