"Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind."

-- Bruce Chatwin

“In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.”
“Paul Ryan looks around, sees three unemployed workers for every job opening in America, and blames the people who can't find a job.”
“The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books.”

Source : Elif Batuman (2011). “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them”, p.84, Granta Books
“There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.”
“What's culturally significant about MySpace is that it has become so pervasive that people of all ages are now using it. Even people who didn't grow up with it are getting used to it. People just get sucked in.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Tendulkar must have known from his heart”
“If a man does his best, what else is there?”
“In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.”

Source : Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.140, Penguin

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