"The world is on fire; time is a bomb. Ten thousand years are not enough When so much remains to be done"

-- Jeet Thayil

#Fire Quotes #Years Quotes #Bombs Quotes

“The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter that has been fully formed and pushed aside, but absolutely present and alive. I understand this. Nonetheless, I sometimes find it hard to bear.”

Source : Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.217, Vintage
“The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.”
“A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.”
“I still have a lot my Disney store art left and if I ever run out I'll just redraw it, because it will still be my original art and as a freelancer I own it.”
“When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I dont know what to say, really.”
“I believe no-one can insult you without your permission. Shilpa Shetty has paid the price for trying to desperately seek the approval of the West. It is pathetic how we can go on bended knees and lick the boots of Westerners in an effort to be part of their world.”
“I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.”
“But what was it Haymitch said when I asked if he had told Peeta the situation? That he had to pretend to be desperately in love? â€œDonâ€™t have to. Heâ€™s already there.”

Source : Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.358, Scholastic Inc.

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