"My religion is no way of knowing me."

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Source : Jeet Thayil (2012). “Narcopolis”, p.174, Faber & Faber

Jeet Thayil

#Knowing Quotes #Way Quotes

“Discipline gives you the freedom to be creative.”
“Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.”
“The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.”
“I think the better the show usually it means that you've got a lot of good people, because it's sustaining itself. If there's negative energy, things tend to break down ultimately.”
“You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland.”
“Cena with the WWE Title, Randy Orton with the Money In The Bank briefcase, & Daniel Bryan with the beard.”
“Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.”
“Your life is right now! It's not later! It's not in that time of retirement. It's not when the lover gets here. It's not when you've moved into the new house. It's not when you get the better job. Your life is right now. It will always be right now. You might as well decide to start enjoying your life right now, because it's not ever going to get better than right now-until it gets better right now!”

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