One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament.
I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.
The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.
the hope that there she would manage to regain her happiness made her fearless
just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once
There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last
Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.
Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president.
It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
I think that most of us are aware that as writers we are seeking absences, we're seeking silences, we're seeking spaces that people haven't entered. No writer is saying, "Hey, I want to go to this very well trod territory and say exactly what someone else has done. " I think the nature of a writer, because we are attempting to bring to light areas that people haven't seen before, tends in some ways to be progressive, at least in that light.
It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.