"Modernity has created more problems than it is capable of solving. Millions of people are now condemned to wait endlessly for their redemption through modernity."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#People Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Redemption Quotes

“In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there are two main ones, the real soul and a pretender soul. Now! Every man realizes that he has to love something or somebody. He feels that he must go outward. 'If thou canst not love, what art thou?' Are you with me?”
“If I feel like crying, I'll just cry in a dream. Something I really try not to do in my waking hours. I like good melodrama because it's just an undumping of all these compulsions we feel that we work so hard to master during our waking hours. No wonder we crash to sleep in bed at night. We have to, otherwise we'd just spend our waking hours shredding the feelings from everybody else.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Financially Im comfortable. But life has a lot more in store for me.”
“For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding extraordinary moments in otherwise normal people.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.”
“As for free education, universal medical care and other basic rights: Yes, people have to fight! Of course they have to. Free and good education is their right, no matter what advisors and 'experts' coming from the United States say.”
“I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue from different angles, from different points of view, from different presentation styles, that really makes things sink in and become embedded.”
“Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.”

Source : Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #1: Mister Monday”, p.202, Scholastic Inc.

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