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"If 'pratikraman' happens immediately [as the mistake happen], then it will bring one in the state of God (Bhagwan-pad)."
"This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault."
"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
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"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."
"Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s."
"The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value."
"If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven."
"No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi."
"People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count."
"We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother."
"My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!"
"I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running."
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