"You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that."

-- Arthur Ashe

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“Can you believe this crap ?”
“Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. ... And because it is often by describing the thing lost - a family, a moment of happiness, a child, a father - that we understand the full weight of what we had.”
“It’s hard to feel hurt or frightened when you’re flooded with pity.”

Source : "What happened when I confronted my cruellest troll" by Lindy West, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2015.
“The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future.”
“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”

Source : Garth Nix (2014). “Clariel”, p.219, Hot Key Books
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls.”
“If you want to remain always happy, Always perfect and always fulfilled, Then always keep inside your heart A pocketful of sweet dreams.”
“I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we're shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration to private expeditions.”

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