"So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English."

-- Vikram Seth

#Language Quotes #Should Quotes #Novel Quotes

“Thoughts are like stars in the firmament; some are fixed, others like the wandering planets, others again are only like meteors. Understanding is like the Sun, which gives light to all the thoughts. Memory is like the Moon, it hath its new, its full and its wane.”
“Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.”
“It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.”
“That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.”
“What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”

Source : Charles Fillmore, Myrtle Fillmore (1938). “Unity [devoted to Practical Christianity]”
“Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.”
“My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund.”

Source : "Adam Sandler and Friends Too Grown Up to LOL, But Not for Dropping Trou" by Heather Huntington, www.eonline.com. June 6, 2010.
“I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.”

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