"I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now."

-- Jhumpa Lahiri

#Bystanders Quotes #People Quotes #Email Quotes

“The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”
“Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.”
“Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes.”
“See, what I don't like listening to is when writers go, 'And then the person cries.' 'Or the person does this.' It's there, but it's not the Bible. I wait and see what happens to me on the day.”
“During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.”
“The Chinese government thinks China and the U.S. should develop a constructive relationship of cooperation,”

Source : "China keeps watch on U.S. policy shifts" by Willy Wo-Lap Lam, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2001.
“Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.”
“To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of the coincidental ether, if you will. To achieve that, a precondition is a kind of unconsciousness, a kind of drifting, a certain taking-your-eye-off-the-ball, a certain assumptions that things are simpler than they are, almost always precedes what Mircea Eliade called â€˜the rupture of planeâ€™ that indicates that there is an archetypal world, an archetypal power behind profane appearances.”

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