"Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New York, layered like a sedimentary plain with the accreted history of invaders from the Aryans to the Mongols to the British."

-- Mohsin Hamid

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“I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming phrases; with tears and with tinsel, and with sugar-coated pills, and with platitudes slightly regilded. Yes, and I fight him also with little mirrors wherein gleam confusedly the corruptions of lust, and ruddy loyalty, and a bit of moonshine, and the pure diamond of the heart's desire, and the opal cloudings of human compromise: but, above all, I fight that ravening dotard with the strength of my own folly.”

Source : James Branch Cabell (1948). “The Witch-woman: A Trilogy about Her”, Amereon Limited
“I don't get mad, I get even.”
“Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.”
“This present universe is the Kingdom of Heaven, and all we do is to clear away our misconception of it until we see It as It really is.”
“I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.”
“If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.”

Source : Bud Wilkinson (1993). “Football: Winning Offense”, p.13, Sports Illustrated
“I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.”
“I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.”

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