"Can I ask you a personal question"? Of all the rhetorical questions in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its simultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is about to follow."

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Source : Kamila Shamsie (2005). “Broken Verses”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Kamila Shamsie

#Denial Quotes #World Quotes #Gestures Quotes

“The best things in life are often the ones hardest to get. Yet they are also the ones that are the easiest to find, usually right in front of your face.”
“The absorption and organization of sunlight, the essence of life, is derived almost exclusively through plants. Since light is the driving force of every cell in our bodies, that is why we need green plants.”
“Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.”
“Ðs long as I've got an audience out there to play for, I'm going to continue to play. I have at least enough people that I can go out on the road for 10, 11 weeks at a time.”
“When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.”
“Any woodthrush shows it - he sings, not to fill the world, but because he is filled.”
“Well, if you live long enough, you lose a lot. Just as long as you don't throw them away. Whatever you loose, you'll find again, but what you throw away you never get back. -Oibore (Enishi's dad) to Yahiko and Misao”
“An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.”

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