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I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.
I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.
That's basically the mantra of Herr Silverman's teaching - think for yourself and do what's right for you, but let others do the same.
I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.
What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
In 'The Interestings' I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.
Today, she had yielded the sovereignty of her country to Eugenides, who had given up everything he had ever hoped for, to be her King.
Without water drops, there can be no oceans; without steps, there can be no stairs; without little things, there can be no big things!
The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!
Give food to the birds, you will then be surrounded by the wings of love, you will be encompassed by the joys of little silent hearts!
I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!
Life is a double-faced creature; one face is tragedy, the other one is comedy. We have no way but to face the first face with dignity!
Science says that there are many more universes apart from ours. In that case, even when we think universally, we still think locally!
Every time a strong wind blows, every sand and dust yearns for being a solid rock and every solid rock longs for flying with the wind!
Don't be like a train; don't travel on the same path! Thousands of different paths are waiting for you to walk! Don't be like a train!
Have you ever seen a donkey smelling a beautiful rose? Donkeys aren't interested in roses, they like thorn bushes or watermelon rinds!
Ignore the people who advice you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!
Move at a snail's pace or walk with the speed of a turtle or run like a rabbit! Just move; forget about the speed and just move ahead!
No sheep can be a king in the empire of wolves, but any wolf can be an emperor in the kingdom of sheeps! Paw is the key to the throne.
Sometimes dangerous paths are the only paths leading to the safest paths. In these cases, do not hesitate to take the dangerous roads!
Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!
Those waters which leave the main stream either cannot reach the sea and disappear in inland or find a better place, a beautiful lake.
All life passes like a fast flowing river and how strange to see that happiness increases this speed! Yes, a happy life passes faster!
The road to happiness has never been a straight one, and yet, it is the only road worth traveling, no matter how curvy or rocky it is!
I do feel like there`s this Republican Party establishment is in disarray. That`s the story that the Donald Trump surge seems to tell.
My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.
One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.
That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life.
I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
I was thinking that maybe when everything around you changed all the time, it was nice to know that something would always be the same
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.
Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's.
People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation.
Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house.
The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books.
When we aren't collectively imagining hopeful futures, then the way things are going almost invariably seems negative and frightening.
Religion is not something I like to talk about publicly. One reason is the politics, but also I think spirituality is deeply personal.
If India is to lead the world, if India is to be an advanced nation like America and China, then women empowerment is the only answer.
The Beatles were here in the 1960s, with their wives, at the Maharshi's ashram. And they wanted my advice on various matters in India.
My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.
Relationships change even more than people. It's like two people changing. It's exponentially more volatile. Especially two teenagers.
You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.
Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.
Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.
Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction.