"As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and b) It is best to be prepared."

-- Arundhati Roy

#Two Quotes #Jam Quotes #Be Prepared Quotes

“A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I know no one worth my envying him.”
“Those mad at me, writing emails angrily, Im not anti-America, America is anti-me.”

Source : Song: Obama Nation
“Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history ..... Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth”
“There's no specific aesthetic other than a sense of the beautiful itself, I suppose.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed to have on a Browning or a Tennyson. Indeed it seems to me that an exact homology exists between painting and poetry on the one hand and modem chemistry and modem algebra on the other. In poetry and algebra we have the pure idea elaborated and expressed through the vehicle of language, in painting and chemistry the idea enveloped in matter, depending in part on manual processes and the resources of art for its due manifestation.”
“Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.”
“Iâ€™ve started thinking about pure electronic music again. Something very melodic, very aggressive.”
“To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.”

Source : "Pre: Americas Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine". Book by Tom Jordan, 1977.

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