"Nothing is an accident: it's always someone's fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated, alone with his or her anguish and guilt, and too penetrating a question can mean people are not able to face one another the next day."

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Source : Nadeem Aslam (2012). “Maps for Lost Lovers”, p.200, Random House India

Nadeem Aslam

#Mistake Quotes #Mean Quotes #People Quotes

“Sometimes, with directors, you have to take what they say and translate it in your head, into something that makes sense to you, because you're speaking two different languages.”
“Never Google yourself. Seriously, don't!”
“When you get to the 35-year mark in your career, you make albums for your fans to love you more, so they don't forget about you.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.”
“You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it.”
“Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.”
“Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.”
“We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents' lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies-all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.”

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