Deependra Prashad Quotes & Sayings

And I'd marry you, Harry. Because it rhymes. — Louis Tomlinson

Bureaucracy is trouble everybody has. It's a system evolved so that nobody in it is ever responsible for anything. — L. Ron Hubbard

A big part of serious fiction's purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves ... I strongly suspect a big part of real art fiction's job is to aggravate this sense of entrapment and loneliness and death in people, to move people to countenance it. — David Foster Wallace

That all war is physically frightful is obvious; but if that were a moral verdict, there would be no difference between a torturer and a surgeon. There are certain intellectuals who are too bright to be content with merely praising peace but who are infuriated by anybody praising war. If no war is possible, all criminality has its chance — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive. — Clifford Geertz

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them. — Orson Scott Card

God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed To clothe the nakedness of need,- Where farmer folk in silence meet,- I turn my bell-unsummoned feet; I lay the critic's glass aside, I tread upon my lettered pride, And, lowest-seated, testify To the oneness of humanity; Confess the universal want, And share whatever Heaven may grant. He findeth not who seeks his own, The soul is lost that's saved alone. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views. — Mary Schmich

He is by nature led
To peace so perfect that the young behold
With envy, what the old man hardly feels. — William Wordsworth

In practice, the Internet functions more frequently as a hive of distraction, a simulated world through which most of us flit from one context to the next ... — Steve Almond

Our understanding of the universe is like a tale without beginning or end, where the reader creates the script as he reads along. It's like the act of creation was more like an act of facilitation, where Love (divinity) is the facilitator and mankind's mind, with its free will, is the co-creator. — Ivan Figueroa-Otero

To be in Christ is to be a living exegesis of the narrative of Christ, a new performance of the original drama of exaltation following humiliation, of humiliation as the voluntary renunciation of rights and selfish gain in order to serve and obey. — Michael J. Gorman

I never allowed my fear to limit me. — Curtis Jackson

A new truth; that a woman can be just as cruel and dehumanized as a man, and that all safety is an illusion. — Morrissey