"People who do not take charge of their lives are lathi-charged by time."

-- Kiran Bedi

“The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.”
“In olden times an enemy was sometimes poisoned by a bouquet,--deceit sugar-coated.”
“People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.”
“In golf, just because a person is big and cut and ripped, doesn't mean they have a physical advantage.”
“Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.”

Source : Storm Jameson (2011). “Company Parade”, p.92, Bloomsbury Publishing
“All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind”
“It was summertime and I was in The Azores, hanging around the small village my parents are from. I was looking out on this very rural setting, on a road going up a hill. There was an old man coming down the hill with a pitchfork on his shoulder. He was wearing gum boots, work pants - and a Coca-Cola T-shirt. I saw that and thought, That's my album!”
“If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.”

Source : Jean Genet (1960). “The Balcony: (Le Balcon) a Play in Nine Scenes”

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