"I don't think of myself as particularly earnest. I have long bouts of cynicism and skepticism. So much of my early life was full of uncertainties. It still is. My "Buddha book" expresses that. Perhaps that's what created this impression of earnestness."

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Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Pankaj Mishra

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.”
“Jesus didn't come to make us safe. He came to make us dangerous to the kingdom of darkness.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 29, 2016
“Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.”
“To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.”

Source : SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”
“Butler's interception comes off as a great play, which it really was, at the biggest time of the year.”
“I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end up writing about all three. They just happen to be personal obsessions of mine.”
“If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.”
“I finally found me a cloud to float on.”

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