You two are too cute, ” the counter girl said, setting two cups piled with whipped cream on the counter. She had a sort of lopsided, open smile that made me think she laughed a lot. “Seriously. How long have you been going out?” Sam...
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Maggie Stiefvater
Remember, one step leads to the other and therefore never neglect the first step. It will give you the confidence you need to sail through with victory
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Israelmore Ayivor
Sometimes I think if I could do all the things that I stopped doing, meet all the friends that I left due to time, money and other unavoidable circumstances. Continue all my passions at least once. Then my life would be more justified than today....
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Ratish Edwards
If at first you don't succeed then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
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Steven Wright
Life reality tells us that to grow physically, you first need to grow inwardly
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Sunday Adelaja
More Quotes By Pankaj Mishra
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...
