"India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country."

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Source : "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

Anita Desai

#Country Quotes #Past Quotes #India Quotes

“There was a period where I dressed sort of like a mechanic and I looked really schlumpy, and I thought, "This is not who I am. This is not who I want to be." It was a very important moment for me - to not hide.”

Source : "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.
“Hyun Joong hyung is totally a real man. He is very generous, easy to get along, and dependable. Sometimes, he would hide and cry secretly at night. He wonâ€™t tell others when he is sad about something. Heâ€™ll bear the sadness himself. He has a strong personality (he will not fall).”
“Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality ... The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.”

Source : Evelyn Underhill (2015). “The School of Charity: Meditations on the Christian Creed”, p.100, Aeterna Press
“I'm an anti-industrial kind of guy.”
“In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.”
“Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.”
“There is a gesture he has, a motion, that always reminds me of a great batter leaning into a hit. He has a way of throwing one foot forward, putting his head down a bit as he silently runs the valves, and then the cheeks bloom out in the way that has mystified his dentist for years, and he hits into the solo. When that foot goes forward like that, you know that John Birks Gillespie is no longer clowning. Stand back.”
“It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.”

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