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There are things in life that science will never be able to see. We have to rely on what has been passed from our ancestors, generation to generation.Pawan Mishra
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Availability of knowledge is only next to prevalence of stupidity in its overwhelming abundance.Pawan Mishra
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Knowledge that can make miracles happen needs to be guarded carefully. If it falls into the wrong hands, miracles become disasters in no time.Pawan Mishra
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..he had also acquired a peculiar academic quirk. During exams, he knew all the answers but wasn’t able to successfully map his answers to the right questions. So as soon as an exam started, he simply started putting his answers in the order in which he remembered them. Every time he moved to a new class, his parents made the new teachers aware of this snag. The teachers acknowledged it and reassured the parents that they’d match his answers against the appropriate questions.Pawan Mishra
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It was a time when a degree was expected but not much respected.Pawan Mishra
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A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.Pawan Mishra
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Such delicacies are relationships.Pawan Mishra
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No great soul, as they say, lives for very long. Because God desperately wants all the great people near him.Pawan Mishra
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When the soul heals, the issues of the body disappear like they never happened.Pawan Mishra
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A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants’ unwillingness to work.Pawan Mishra
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All the progress in science can’t be used to build a smell receptor as capable as the one that a true leader possesses–to smell trouble or just something fishy.Pawan Mishra
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Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.Pawan Mishra
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A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.Pawan Mishra
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Writing a story is like going on a date–you will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment.Pawan Mishra
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Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.Pawan Mishra
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Don’t break the rules when you haven’t fully figured them out yet.Pawan Mishra
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Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.Pawan Mishra
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The good writing ideas don’t have to be about political turmoil, mass killings, capitalism, racism, injustice, etc. Find that one idea that has deep roots in your heart.Pawan Mishra
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Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.Pawan Mishra
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A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.Pawan Mishra
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Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.Pawan Mishra
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Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.Pawan Mishra
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If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.Pawan Mishra
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As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.Pawan Mishra
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Don’t interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own.Pawan Mishra
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Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.Pawan Mishra
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If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.Pawan Mishra
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If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.Pawan Mishra
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You need to be my wife to win with me.Pawan Mishra
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Most of a husband’s life is spent in doing research on his wife.Pawan Mishra
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Despite progress witnessed elsewhere in the matters of heart, parents in this part of the world hadn’t quite come around to letting their adult offspring choose their lovers.Pawan Mishra
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The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes.Pawan Mishra
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Her beauty effortlessly managed to arrest the pulse of each heart at the office and keep it in a dreamlike cage where she could have a look at each at her will and derive pleasure which, it had to be said, was a touch malicious in nature.Pawan Mishra
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This is where the whole thing entered into a vicious cycle, for her proximity always inebriated the hearts, thus only deepening their desire to remain hostages in the cage so that they could booze even more on that beauty.Pawan Mishra
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Matters of the heart are so incalculable!Pawan Mishra
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Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones.Pawan Mishra
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Everyone’s mind has sort of a slum division–a flirtatious spot that doesn’t give a hoot about how grave a situation is but constantly endeavors to derail more earnest thoughts, almost like a death-wish backseat driver.Pawan Mishra
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If you thought with your minds and not your roosters, you would get the point!Pawan Mishra
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I wonder if they were aware of the power of complimentary alcohol during World War I.Pawan Mishra
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He was a chicken in the outside world that turned into a lion on entering the house.Pawan Mishra
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Depression is a reality with everyone. What’s important is the ability to move on.Pawan Mishra
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Our perception could either be our path to nirvana or an invisible cage that bottles us up.Pawan Mishra
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Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs–and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again.Pawan Mishra
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One is often unconsciously surrounded by one’s own personal realityPawan Mishra
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Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing.Pawan Mishra
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Relationships are the flavors of life.Pawan Mishra
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O woman, thou art my imperfection!Pawan Mishra
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As soon as anger knocks at one’s door, wisdom prepares to leave.Pawan Mishra
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There is no God for sure, else how could one justify terminal diseases in small kids?Pawan Mishra
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I have died every day in my mind with disgust for not being able to protect my own children.Pawan Mishra
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The underprivileged are byproduct of society’s material progress.Pawan Mishra
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Psychos are in uniform circulation in society.Pawan Mishra
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A life without sweets is not much worth living.Pawan Mishra
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Sometimes fate just plays a strange scrabble.Pawan Mishra
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One needs to pursue some sort of a creative interest in order to keep life from eating us alive.Pawan Mishra
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It’s strange how necessary it is to have problems to be able to prepare for avoiding future disasters.Pawan Mishra
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You aren’t in the ivy halls of your miserable literature pursuit now. Without wasting more time, will thou cometh to the pointeth? Dost thou wanteth us to stayeth or leaveth?Pawan Mishra
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To his shock, as Saarang turned the first page, the words slowly transformed into small cylinders, except for one-letter words which preferred being spheres, and started rolling toward the vertical edges of the book.Pawan Mishra
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Like a deep sad noteplayed beneath the oceanwaving through the orbthe memories of youthe bittersweet echoesinfixed forever in my heartPawan Mishra
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You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep.Pawan Mishra
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The traditional techniques used in getting sleep aren’t much effective any longer and our sleep techniques need to evolve as rapidly as our life style has, in order to cope with it.Pawan Mishra
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If the world leaders can afford a 7 hours sleep, most of us probably can too.Pawan Mishra
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Let’s imagine a running washing machine. Let’s imagine the dirty clothes in the machine and how the liquid detergent is getting the dirt out of clothes and draining it to the waste outlet. Now imagine brain surrounded by a large pool of cleaning fluid called CSF (cerebrospinal fluid). Imagine CSF pulling the wastes from inside the brain and draining it into the blood, which routes it to the waste outlets. CSF clears waste many times faster in sleeping brain than in the waking brain.Pawan Mishra
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Tonight is going to be a big night, like any other night, because certain 10 million Americans will not be able to sleep well tonight.Pawan Mishra
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Our current bittersweet relationship with our sleep hasn’t had a long history.Pawan Mishra
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Our faster than ever evolution has resulted in our undermining certain incredibly important aspects of humanity–like our sleep.Pawan Mishra
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A breach in trust brings mistrust, followed by a multitude of troubles.Pawan Mishra
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After all, nothing nurtures a friendship bond more than the ability to consistently bitch about someone else!Pawan Mishra
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The problems are here to stay. We need to find a way to deal with them.Pawan Mishra
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The art wouldn’t complain if we leave her alone. Losing a touch with art, however, is losing a touch with our imagination.Pawan Mishra
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The loss of a reliance on others often helpfully forces a more sophisticated rumination that enables the opening of previously unknown avenues.Pawan Mishra
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If you really want to talk to the big boss now, make sure you leave your balls here with me, for he likes no balls on people he is talking to.Pawan Mishra
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The obvious matters are more imperceptible today.Pawan Mishra
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I may just be on the outskirts of being okay.Pawan Mishra
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It’s not the obviousness or the complexity of the things that’s deftly deluding mankind. It’s man himself.Pawan Mishra
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There is no point in housing troubles inside your underwear if you can’t solve them by yourself.Pawan Mishra
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Is that the biggest favor your vocal cords have done to anyone this week?Pawan Mishra
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There are a thousand beautiful women out there, but only a handful of them possess the grace required by such beauty to stop it from looking ugly.Pawan Mishra
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Fate has this weird way of making your wish come true by supplementing it with ten other spiteful things.Pawan Mishra
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We had firsthand witnessed the ethereal evil of crushing hope just when it had peaked–like an open door, visible to you as you approach it from miles away, just closing on you when you have only two more yards to go.Pawan Mishra
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Anyone can lecture from the butt, only very few can act.Pawan Mishra
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Damn, the good words are all asterisked! ”“ The men only understand the asterisks. My worry is if they understand the rest!Pawan Mishra
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If a muscleman like Hukum can write a poem, everyone can.Pawan Mishra
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The only thing God is afraid of is a strong-willed human!Pawan Mishra
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Bandar had effortlessly converted Ratiram’s grit into the smoke rings that he blew triumphantly in the air.Pawan Mishra
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How many times can one have a heart attack within a week?Pawan Mishra
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A healthy body is a platform for flourishing a healthy mind.Pawan Mishra
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A lie for a good reason is better than a truth that destroys.Pawan Mishra
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Many storytellers with possibly more potential than Shakespeare, even though I have not read much of him, could not hit much fame because they treated their stories like their wives. Rather than limiting the emotion only to flirting with their stories, they married them, thus limiting their chances of experimenting.Pawan Mishra
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Good neighbors always spy on you to make sure you are doing well.Pawan Mishra
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People say there are thousands of options we have in life. I say we have only two: we can either be happy or be unhappy.Pawan Mishra
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The most ironic thing in the world is having no say when your name is determined for the first time (which is also for the last time for most), because newborns are not necessarily known for speaking their minds.Pawan Mishra
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Across the board at the office there was a belief, an unproved theorem, about Coinman’s blind faith in Ratiram; that if one thought Coinman could willingly sip a cup of Botulinum if Ratiram wished so, it still underestimated the reverence that dwelt in Coinman’s heart for Ratiram.Pawan Mishra
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Think about death being inevitable, and unpredictable, exempt from the law of averages. Everyone has a turn, and no one knows when.Pawan Mishra
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It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds.Pawan Mishra
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In troubled times, one wishes for a sound sleep more than usual, but on the contrary, realizing its amplified importance, sleep smugly impedes all attempts to woo it.Pawan Mishra
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I feel like oversized trousers on sale, not even made of good material, that no one wants to buy. They just hang in there hoping that someone someday will compromise for its low cost.Pawan Mishra
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While a democratic process is morally desirable for arriving at a decision, it doesn’t necessarily produce the best outcomes.Pawan Mishra
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We are all born artists. The nature generally doesn’t discriminate among newborns with respect to art. Yet most of us try very hard as we grow, without knowing, to stop being artists.Pawan Mishra
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On the first floor, the first rule of a rumor was humor.Pawan Mishra