"She'd have to propel herself into the future by whatever means possible or she'd be trapped forever in a place whose times had already passed."

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Source : Kiran Desai (2007). “The Inheritance of Loss”, p.82, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Kiran Desai

#Travel Quotes #Mean Quotes #Forever Quotes

“We became more familiar with [Bernard Leach], and with this familiarity came, I wouldn't say contempt, but certainly an awareness that everything that he said was not necessarily what we were thinking. That doesn't mean it was wrong, but Leach was a person out of a different generation.”
“I enrich myself by telling others to give to me so they can bribe God to get what they want.”
“Each time I step on the basketball court, I never know what will happen. I live for the moment. I play for the moment.”
“I was an original member of the Actors' Studio”
“Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a current or of two currents and also of fluids or a fluid, yet conveys a full and useful pictorial idea to the mind.”
“Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.”
“By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls.”
“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy”

Source : "A Handbook of the Cornish Language". Book by Henry Jenner, 1904.

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