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“Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.”
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“I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I think that our society will not allow anyone to establish a dictatorship again in the future. [Mikhail] Saakashvili will fail.”
Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
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“Barack Obama has raised tons of money. That is what he means by being green.”
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“l am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.”
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“Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.”
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“[Calvin Trilllin] is not writing about things that I can criticize. I can call these other people out for what I think they are not doing. There's a big difference.”
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“You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left for other jobs, towns, got deported, returned home, changed names. Sometimes someone came popping around a corner again, or on the subway then they vanished again. Addresses, phone numbers did not hold. The emptiness Biju felt returned to him over and over, until eventually he made sure not to let friendships sink deep anymore.”
Source : Kiran Desai (2007). “The Inheritance of Loss”, p.112, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.