"It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do."

-- Arundhati Roy

#Life Quotes #Dream Quotes #Stories Quotes

“You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall.”
“There be three sorts of government--monarchical, aristocratical, democratical; and they are apt to fall three several ways into ruin--the first, by tyranny; the second, by ambition; the last, by tumults. A commonwealth grounded upon any one of these is not of long continuance; but, wisely mingled, each guards the other and makes that government exact.”
“On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.”
“The only time an Australian ever walks is when his car runs out of petrol.”
“It is always your next move.”
“I will scrape and dig into every word as far as I can get, right down to the essence of the word, to the substance of the image.”
“Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut...”
“Basically, the prosecutor who led case against me and that administration were trying to say that an actor can be held responsible for his acting, thousands of miles away from where he did the acting. The analogy would be if an artist painted a nude painting in New York City, and it was met with accolades and great reviews. And suddenly, somebody from Texas bought it and put it in their shoe store and it was found to be obscene in Texas, the artist in New York is responsible, and goes to jail because it's obscene in Texas.”

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