"We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here."

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Source : Jeet Thayil (2012). “Narcopolis”, p.21, Faber & Faber

Jeet Thayil

#Waiting Quotes #Glances Quotes #Acknowledgement Quotes

“I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.”
“The Sage of Toronto ... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to all. Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom and repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle's present vulgarity.”
“I have said many times-if I hadn't been exposed to music as a child I don't think I would have been president.”

Source : Willie Dixon, Don Snowden (1989). “I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story”
“As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.”
“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
“He loved me. He'd loved me as long as he he'd known me! I hadn't loved him as long perhaps, but now I loved him equally well, or better. I loved his laugh, his handwriting, his steady gaze, his honorableness, his freckles, his appreciation of my jokes, his hands, his determination that I should know the worst of him. And, most of all, shameful though it might be, I loved his love for me.”
“Women communicate with all their senses. Men don't do that.”
“To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.”

Source : Rose Macaulay (1922). “Mystery at Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings”

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