"...I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes."

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Source : Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Black Album with My Son the Fanatic: A Novel and a Short Story”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

Hanif Kureishi

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“The building of a just and peaceful world order, the aim of the United Nations, is hampered not by a dearth of ideas, resources, and manpower but by the lack of will on the part of governments to take the required steps ...”
“Every single person on the planet is rewarded for one thing and one thing only, and that is for serving other people. The more you serve others, the higher your reward.”
“I love great music - it has no color, it has no boundaries.”
“They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.”
“It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground, send them all to their maker and he'll settle them down.”
“I had Halloween parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.”
“Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.”

Source : Jack Weatherford (2005). “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”, p.8, Broadway Books
“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.”

Source : E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.102, Pushkin Press

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