The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth — that billions of consumers in India & China will one day enjoy the lifestyles of Europeans and Americans — is as absurd & dangerous a fantasy as anything dreamt up by Al-Qaeda. It condemns the global environment to early destruction & looks set to create reservoirs of nihilistic rage & disappointment among hundreds of millions of have-nots — the bitter outcome of the universal triumph of Western Modernity, which turns the revenge of the East into something darkly ambiguous, and all its victories truly Pyrrhic. Pankaj Mishra
I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts....
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Nora Ephron
When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.
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Shannon L. Alder
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.
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Roy T. Bennett
Ester asked why people are sad." That’s simple, " says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it...
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Paulo Coelho
Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make.
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Roy T. Bennett
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Unlike his compatriots - many of whom were still, in their mid-twenties, adolescent posturers, doomed to futility - he had an engaging earnestness about him. Unlike them, he realized his incompleteness as a person and strove to overcome that. One of the ways in which...
The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth — that billions of consumers in India & China will one day enjoy the lifestyles of Europeans and Americans — is as absurd & dangerous a fantasy as anything dreamt up by Al-Qaeda. It condemns...
For, to be woken up at five in the morning by the devotional treacle of Anup Jalota, Hari Om Sharan and other confectioners, all of them simultaneously droning out from several different cassette players; to be relentlessly assaulted for the rest of the day and...
The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.
As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our...
