"Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back."

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Source : John Barth (1984). “The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction”

John Barth

#Ships Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Monsoons Quotes

“Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...”
“If odours may worke satisfaction, they are so soveraigne in plants and so comfortable that no confection of the apothecaries can equall their excellent vertue.”

Source : John Gerard, (2013). “Gerard's Herball - Or, Generall Historie of Plantes”, p.3, Read Books Ltd
“If two people are able to communicate their feelings without words you know it's true love”
“'Live each day as if it is your last,' said Mahatma Gandhi. 'Learn as if you'll live forever.' This is what I'm passionate about. It is precisely this. It is this inextinguishable, undaunted appetite for learning and experience, no matter how risible, no matter how esoteric, no matter how seditious it might seem.”
“Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed. Today, by contrast, credit is too tight. Mortgage loans are particularly hard to get, creating a problem for the housing market and the broader economy.”
“The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self”
“I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint.”
“Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to go through the work of getting the damn book out. There is a huge difference.”

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