Basudeb Pal Quotes & Sayings

I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, "How would I have wanted to be treated?" — Desmond Tutu

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. — Alice Walker

One of the disconcerting things about writing for publication is that you're trying to clear your little parcel of land in a field where Taste is king - and, as we all know, there's no accounting for Taste. — Darin Strauss

The greatest gift ... is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at the future; and it is appalling to contemplate the great number of often painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old, so obvious, and so frequently expressed. It is good for one to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now-this day-this hour. — Charles Macomb Flandrau

Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts. — Yann Martel

It was cheerful inside, without the aggressive Easy Rider feel of some of the other tattoo parlors in the city, where the handle-jawed thugs wielding the tattoo guns looked like ink was just a side job, their main work, contract killings. — Marisha Pessl

A process of accretion. Barnacles growing on a wreck or a rock. I'd rather have a wreck than a ship that sails. Things attach themselves to wrecks. Strange fish find your wreck or rock to be a good feeding ground; after a while you've got a situation with possibilities. — Donald Barthelme