"A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others."

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Source : Mordecai Richler (1999). “The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

Mordecai Richler

#Boys Quotes #Men Quotes #Two Quotes

“Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.”
“People think that Detroit is this barren wasteland. While there are parts that are not as nice as others, the misconception is not true. It is definitely not a thriving community in Detroit, but it is getting there. There is a lot of heart and love in this city.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill in horticulture or power of purse, and which is beyond explaining. It is born of sensitive and very personal preferences yet its appeal is almost universal.”

Source : Louise Beebe Wilder (1990). “The fragrant path”, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
“It angers me that sick people have to wait for everything and everybody - doctors, nurses, callbacks, lab results, prescriptions, medications, technicians, treatment rooms. If illness is the embodiment of powerlessness, which, believe me, is true, then waiting is its temporal incarnation.”
“I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.”
“Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.”

Source : Richard Wilbur, William Butts (1990). “Conversations with Richard Wilbur”, p.109, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Only that which is well done is quickly done.”
“Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were paid. Such choices had evolved over the years into a principle: The best government is the one that gets out of the way. The attacks on the Taj and the Oberoi, in which executives and socialites died, had served as a blunt correction. The wealthy now saw that their security could not be requisitioned privately. They were dependent on the same public safety system that ill served the poor.”

Source : Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity”, p.216, Random House

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