"I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world."

-- Mira Nair

#World Quotes #Towns Quotes #Small Town Quotes

“none of what I know is out of books. ... I prefer tactual learning. Touching, on the quick of the sore nail, of present, mobile life. To toy, to gnaw, to tear: at the living element of pain. Like at a living drumstick.”
“Love is a powerful painkiller.”

Source : Walter Kirn (2005). “Mission to America: A Novel”, Random House LLC
“When I think of my past life, and the bitter trials I have endured, I can scarcely believe I live, and yet I do; and, with the help of Him who notes the sparrowâ€™s fall, I mean to fight for my down-trodden race while life lasts.”

Source : Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1883). “Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims”, p.6, University of Nevada Press
“So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.”
“Saying the lion is kind of the beasts says something about lions and also something about kings.”
“Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!”
“A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.”

Source : George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.170
“There's a tear in his eye that refuses to fall. If it would land on me, that would say it all.”

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