"I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy."

-- Daniel Silva

#War Quotes #Reading Quotes #Russian History Quotes

“I said to myself, if I was in the race, I know I would have won.”
“If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.”

Source : "River of Smoke". Book by Amitav Ghosh, 2011.
“God help this country if we're now prepared to vote for someone we don't trust. But every election cycle we do things we never dreamed of.”
“I have a very beautiful room in my house... It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and... I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.”
“I love life - thatâ€™s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.”
“I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.”
“The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that the former wholeheartedly accepts all things that he sees and hears while the latter never admits anything except after a most searching scrutiny. He imagines his intelligence to be a sieve of closely woven mesh through which nothing but the finest can pass.Â ”

Source : R. K. Narayan (1988). “A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays, 1958-1988”, p.87, Penguin Books India
“Bad things are like waves. They're going to happen to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. They're part of life, like waves are a part of the ocean. If you're standing on the shoreline, you don't know when the waves are coming. But they'll come. You gotta make sure you get back to the surface, after every wave. That's all.”

Source : Lisa Scottoline (2010). “Look Again”, p.218, Macmillan

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