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“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
― Zadie Smith

“Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“I was looking for the key for years
But the door was always open”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

“It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.”
― Aravind Adiga , The White Tiger

“A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.”
― Aravind Adiga, Last Man in Tower

“For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.”
― Edith Piaf, Edith Piaf: 25 chansons

“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
― Carl Sandburg

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

“Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers... Choose DSY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away in the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself, choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
― Lillian Hellman

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
― Hal Borland

“A great nose may be an index
Of a great soul”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.”
― zadie smith

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.”
― Jacob Braude

“Love is different and more difficult. It has nothing to do with sex.
This is what I tried to make my voices understand. QUietly does love
happen. You're not even thinking about romance, then she smiles and
you notice for the first time that she's not all that plain, her face is
really quite sweet. You watch for her smile and notice that it pushes her
cheeks up into two mango shapes, why should this shape be so
pleaSing, I don't know. Then one evening she puts kajal round her eyes
and brushes her hair, looks quite transformed, and suddenly Sonali
Bendre is not so desirable as this one who's been under your nose for
so long, who's all dolled up to go somewhere you're not going, can
never go.”
― Indra Sinha, Animal's People

“The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport. ”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
― D.H. Lawrence