"If only a man could spit his past out so easily."

-- Aravind Adiga

#Past Quotes #Men Quotes #Spit Quotes

“Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.”

Source : Richard's Cork Leg (1961).
“The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name”
“Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.”

Source : Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.49, Wakefield Press
“I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.”
“It's hard to believe that you did so many drugs for so long. That's what I find really hard. And didn't really consider it. It was eating and drinking and taking drugs and having sex. It was just part of life.”
“The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.”
“A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation.”
“As playwrights, as poets, we have to look to ourselves, listen to our guts for the final answers about what changes to make. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby and you know what's best.”

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