"What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same."

--

Salman Rushdie

“Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies,”
“Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.”

Source : Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.31, Lulu.com
“Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius.”
“In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.”
“Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death.”
“I have to win this now, and for all time, or Iâ€™ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.”
“Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him. He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.”

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