"I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis,"

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Rana Dasgupta

#Class Quotes #Wealth Quotes #Pursuit Quotes

“I'm appalled by the tendency of some rock records to perfect everything to the point where it sounds like Botox and polish it so heavily that there's no humanity left in it.”
“In Spain, however, people have found a way of cheating death. They summon it to appear in the afternoon in the bull ring, and they make it face a man. Death - a fighting bull with horns as weapons - is killed by a bullfighter. And the people are there watching death being cheated of its right.”

Source : Maia Wojciechowska (2012). “Shadow of a Bull”, p.13, Simon and Schuster
“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”
“I'll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was true was that I immediately felt defensive. I blocked it off, and I went to war with them in my mind and suffered all that goes with it. And they were only saying what was true.”
“My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.”
“The participation of our country in the eurozone is a guarantee for the country's monetary stability. It is a driver of financial prosperity.”
“Sometimes the reason we do not see the answer is that we are looking too closely at the question.”
“Why am I in Hell? It hurts. It hurts all the time. Why am I in Hell? I just want to go home and lie on the bed the way I used to. Please take me home.”

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