"Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two."

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Source : "V.S. NAIPAUL : Wanderer Of Endless Curiosity" by R.Z. Sheppard, content.time.com. July 10, 1989.

V. S. Naipaul

#Two Quotes #Interesting Quotes #People Quotes

“This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'”
“Everything in the country, animate and inanimate, seems to whisper, be serene, be kind, be happy. We grow tolerant there unconsciously.”
“If our society were truly to appreciate the significance of children's emotional ties throughout the first years of life, it would no longer tolerate children growing up or parents having to struggle in situations which could not possibly nourish healthy growth.”
“The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.”
“What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.”

Source : "A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected".
“The account of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as the manuscripts are inaccurately designated, and of the half a century of intense research that followed, is in itself a fascinating as well as an exasperating story.”

Source : "The Dead Sea Scrolls in English". Book by Geza Vermes (Introduction, p. 1), 1962.
“What I love about Coulson is that he manages to do that and he manages to wrangle the diva superheroes, and really keep a sense of humor about it. And, you can tell that he really loves his job.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.”

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