"Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."

-- Paulo Coelho

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Happiness Quotes

“Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.”
“I need paper and pen to release my imagination. I can't create on a machine.”
“We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.”
“The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite!”
“The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.”

Source : Malcolm Cowley (1978). “And I worked at the writer's trade: chapters of literary history, 1918-1978”, Viking Adult
“I grew up on a farm and, prior to my father's murder, I wanted to get away from the farm, and away from South Georgia where the Jim Crow laws absolutely controlled anything and everything we did. So, my goal was to leave once I completed high school. But on the night of my father's murder, I made a commitment that I would not leave the South, that I would stay and devote my life to working for change. So, my father's murder has shaped the course of my life even up to this very day.”
“All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.”
“My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.”

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