"Amidst one's daily clutter, one doesn't usually reflect on the splendour of being free because - naturally - one has to get on with the business of living."

-- Upamanyu Chatterjee

#Being Free Quotes #Splendour Quotes #Clutter Quotes

“We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.”
“A lot of young black people in America, and even in Africa and Brazil, would say that they are telling their story, but most of the films are like application forms with the formulaic ideas of Hollywood.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“I remember my wife in white.' It just made people weep to hear it...Everybody just thought it was the saddest sentence that was ever written. And it didn't matter if I never wrote another word. This one sentence had put an end to the need for any future sentences. I had said it all.”
“As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far mar precious than exemption from the trial.”
“Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised”
“To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.”
“Cling, swing, Spring, sing, Swing up into the apple tree.”
“Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.”

Source : Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1919). “The Compensations of Librarianship”

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