"Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen."

-- Ella Maillart

#Sunshine Quotes #Ice Quotes #Gliding Quotes

“Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who maintain the others in the practice of religion by terror. To liberate the Muslim from his religion is the best service one can render him.”
“Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.”
“A baby's existence for the first three months is a one-way street. One person is doing all the work and the other is crying, sleeping and pooping. So the first moment when you're actually able to do something and they acknowledge your presence, that's a big deal. A very big deal.”

Source : "Colin Hanks gets "Lucky" with killer film, TV show". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. July 15, 2011.
“The direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive.”
“The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals.”
“I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium... if I have been doing a very large painting I like to drop into something in small scale. It is a challenge to go into this size. It is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions.”
“I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.”
“You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude.”

Source : "You Are Vijay Seshadri". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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