"Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale"

-- Bertrand Russell

#Individuality Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Scales Quotes

“Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket”
“What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?”

Source : Jami Attenberg (2013). “The Middlesteins”, p.103, Profile Books
“I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six novels are continuous and contain the same set of characters. They are based on Manning's experiences in Eastern Europe and Egypt during the Second World War. Each novel is a wonderful picture of the peculiar British expatriate culture and what was happening during the war. She's one of those brilliant women who write very well about domestic relationships. All the books are slim, and it's easy to gallop through them.”
“North Korea's sin is that it refuses to surrender, to fall on its knees, to sacrifice its people. It refuses to become a slave. For centuries, European and later US colonialism punished such defiance in the most brutal ways. Western culture is, after all, based and built on slavery. It demands absolute compliance, unconditional submission. If North Korea is attacked, it should fight back! And it will.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander around. Williamsburg's such a cool little neighborhood community spot.”
“For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.”
“Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.”

Source : Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.220, Pan Macmillan
“Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.”

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