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"Realism can break a writer's heart."
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"People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting."
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"Living isn't always red bows and birthday balloons."
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"A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done."
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"One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic."
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"The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire."
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"If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life."
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"I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray."
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"Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea."
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"Never expect wolves to behave like sheep."
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"She burst into her hotel room pulling her blouse over her head with one hand while she yanked her shoes off with the other. No way was she going to face an alien invasion in heels and silk."
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"Sardar Harbans Singh passed away peacefully in a wicker rocking-chair in a Srinigar garden of spring flowers and honeybees with his favourite tartan rug across his knees and his beloved son, Yuvraj the exporter of handicrafts, by his side, and when he stopped breathing the bees stopped buzzing and the air silenced its whispers and Yuvraj understood that the story of the world he had known all his life was coming to an end, and that what followed would follow as it had to, but it would unquestionably be less graceful, less courteous and less civilized than what had gone."
Legacy
"Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours."
Meaning
"I hate admitting that my enemies have a point."
Enemy
"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."
Events
"And in Kandahar he was taught about survival, about fighting and killing and hunting, and he learned much else without being taught, such as looking out for himself and watching his tongue and not saying the wrong thing, the thing that might get him killed. About the dignity of the lost, about losing, and how it cleansed the soul to accept defeat, and about letting go, avoiding the trap of holding on too tightly to what you wanted, and about abandonment in general, and in particular fatherlesness, the lessness of fathers, the lessness of the fatherless, and the best defenses of those who are less against those who are more: inwardness, forethought, cunning, humility and good peripheral vision. The many lessons of lessness. The lessening from which growing could begin."
Growth
"I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story."
Art
"Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment."
Mental Health
"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."
Fight
"When you pray for what you most want in the world, its opposite comes along with it. I was given a woman whom I truly loved and who truly loved me. The opposite side of such a love is the pain of its loss. I can only feel such pain today because until yesterday I knew that love."
Emotion
"In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee."
Creativity
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