Sudha Murty · 188 pages
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“Many a times there is no perfect solution for a given problem. No solution is also a solution. Everything depends upon how you look at it. We make judgements on others depending upon what we think of them.”
― Sudha Murty, quote from How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories
“You should not be so sensitive. Sensitive people suffer a lot in life.”
― Sudha Murty, quote from How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories
“There is a difference between loneliness and solitude. Loneliness is boring, whereas in solitude you can inspect and examine your deeds and your thoughts.”
― Sudha Murty, quote from How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories
“I knew then that to come up in life you require talent, hard work, aggression and connections.”
― Sudha Murty, quote from How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories
“Men can do certain things well and women other things. Men and women are complementary to each other. One need not prove one’s strength.”
― Sudha Murty, quote from How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories
“it is not the institution, ultimately it is you and you alone who can change your life by hard work.’ Probably he was not aware that he was following the philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita: ‘Your best friend is yourself and your worst enemy is yourself.”
― Sudha Murty, quote from How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories
Sudha Murty
Born place: in Shiggaon , India
Born date August 19, 1950
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“It was just a kiss – "
"Yeah, and King Kong was just a monkey.”
― Linda Howard, quote from After the Night
“Every time I open my mouth to say what I'm feeling, something stops me and I have to make sure I'm not going to say anything stupid. It makes me crazy. And then, once I've figured out what I'm going to say, I have to go over it, over and over again, just to see if what I'm feeling is right. And then I have to figure out how to say it.”
― Brent Runyon, quote from The Burn Journals
“Вот, помню, когда мне стукнуло двадцать лет — тогда я был невозможно одинок. И день рождения был уныл. Пришел ко мне Юрий Петрович, пришла Нина Васильевна, принесли мне бутылку столичной и банку овощных голубцов — и таким одиноким, таким невозможно одиноким показался я сам себе от этих голубцов, от этой столичной — что, не желая плакать, заплакал… А когда стукнуло тридцать, минувшей осенью? А когда стукнуло тридцать — день был уныл, как день двадцатилетия. Пришел ко мне Боря с какой-то полоумной поэтессою, пришли Вадя с Лидой, Ледик с Володей. И принесли мне — что принесли? — две бутылки столичной и две банки фаршированных томатов. И такое отчаяние, такая мука мной овладели от этих томатов, что хотел я заплакать — и уже не мог… Значит ли это, что за десять лет я стал менее одиноким? Нет, не значит. Тогда значит ли это, что я огрубел душою за десять лет? и ожесточился сердцем? Тоже — не значит. Скорее даже наоборот; но заплакать все-таки не заплакал… Почему? Я, пожалуй, смогу вам это объяснить, если найду для этого какую-нибудь аналогию в мире прекрасного. Допустим, так: если тихий человек выпьет семьсот пятьдесят, он сделается буйным и радостным. А если он добавит еще семьсот? — будет ли он еще буйнее и радостнее? Нет, он опять будет тих. Со стороны покажется даже, что он протрезвел. Но значит ли это, что он протрезвел? Ничуть не бывало: он уже пьян, как свинья, оттого и тих.”
― Venedikt Erofeev, quote from Moscow to the End of the Line
“How the deuce would you know the right way to go on if you was never taught anything but the wrong way?”
― Georgette Heyer, quote from Cotillion
“Dreams were the brain's way of sorting out things left unsettled in our waking lives”
― Hilary Duff, quote from Elixir
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