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Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.
To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.
I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.
But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.
I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectatorOf my triumph or my doom.
Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.
Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light, which blinds, and total darkness.
There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.
Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy.
Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.
Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.
We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.
People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world.
The love and affection of the people of Odisha continues to inspire me every day.
I may be inexperienced, but at least I come with a clean heart and a clean slate.
I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.
The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.
Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting.
Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.
I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.
The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
Good morning, God, I love You! What are You up to today? I want to be part of it.
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.
The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.
The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself
Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.
And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?
Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?
His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.
It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul.