December 2009
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Winning should be a habit, not an option. You never win the silver, you only...
– Shah Rukh Khan
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Courage was not always a matter of yes or no. Sometimes it came in degrees, like...
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
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I looked at Zohra’s pale face, the dried tears on her cheeks, her broken...
– Naguib Mahfouz, Miramar
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that's my problem [jab we met]
Geet: You like me a lot, don't you?
Aditya: A lot. I like you a lot. But that's my problem. Anyone can feel the way they want to. Correct? [Geet nods] You don't have to worry about it at all. Okay?
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And suddenly he realized that all his life he had done nothing but talk, write,...
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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He tried to keep in mind all the languages he had spoken, all the cities he had...
– Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
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Her skin, the night, the grass, to be outside and then to be inside Carmen. He...
– - Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
[credit: here]
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One distinguishes between young men who have seriously learned the processes of...
– Ezra Pound, Preface to George Oppen’s New Collected Poems