"When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core."

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Source : Khushwant Singh (1996). “The collected novels: Train to Pakistan, I shall not hear the nightingale, Delhi”

Khushwant Singh

#Life Quotes #Fate Quotes #Doors Quotes

“The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong. That's all. Not that it is. Just that it might be. I don't know why it is, but we tend to fall in love with things we believe, Threaten them, and you threaten us.”
“God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.”
“I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that's quite common.”
“Brandy is one of my favorite vocalists. Jay-Z is my favorite emcee outside of Biggie.”
“I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.”
“We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.”

Source : Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.38, Faber & Faber
“As an entertainer, a comedy guy, whatever, you're never gonna be truly 100-percent happy with anything.”
“The central objective in decolonising the African mind is to overthrow the authority which alien traditions exercise over the African. This demands the dismantling of white supremacist beliefs, and the structures which uphold them, in every area of African life. It must be stressed, however, that decolonisation does not mean ignorance of foreign traditions; it simply means denial of their authority and withdrawal of allegiance from them.”

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