"In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resultedâ€”Balder, Persephoneâ€”but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them."

-- E. M. Forster

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“See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.”
“When you start out in this business, the Hall of Fame is not what you're thinking about. You think all you want to do is make it to the major leagues. That's your goal, and that's your ambition as a broadcaster, just as it is with playing.”

Source : Source: baseballpastandpresent.com
“I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.”
“It was entirely due to my mother [a devout Buddhist] and her kindness and perseverance that the family was saved from utter ruin. For a period of 17 years--from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old--my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.”
“Prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized purposes, and includes the "all things" beside, as an important detail of the whole.”
“The first mistake is trying to explain morality to a terrorist. Like trying to teach a rock to drive. It is impossible.”
“My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt.”
“Most of the scientists I have known well have felt - just as deeply as the non-scientists I have known well - that the individual condition of each is tragic. Each of us is alone: sometimes we escape from solitariness, through love or affection or perhaps creative moments, but those triumphs of life are pools of light we make for ourselves while the edge of the road is black: each of us dies alone.”

Source : "The Two Cultures".

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