"Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled; in a wheelchair; hare lip; ethnic minorities; handicapped; spinster; committed suicide; gypsies; Bombay; illegitimate daughter; air hostess; Siamese twins; Calcutta; deaf ears; illegal asylum seeker; province of Northern Ireland; grandmother; bachelor."

-- Rod Liddle

#Daughter Quotes #Suicide Quotes #Grandmother Quotes

“Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??”
“Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree.”

Source : Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Salt and Saffron”, p.16, A&C Black
“It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.”

Source : Emily Giffin (2010). “Heart of the Matter: A Novel”, p.364, Macmillan
“I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.”

Source : "Soft-centred". Interview with David Eimer, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.
“The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.”
“Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of selfpity and pain.”
“Each one of us is left to choose our own quality of life and take pleasure where we find it with the understanding that, like Mom used to say, sooner or later something's gonna get you.”
“One of the most dynamic and significant changes you can make in your life is to make the commitment to drop all negative references to your past, to begin living now.”

Source : Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Worry, Make Money: Spiritual and Practical Ways to Create Abundance and More Fun in Your Life”, Hyperion Books

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