Jinadasa Thalaguli Quotes & Sayings

Plot comes first. The plot is the archictecture of your novel. You wouldn't build a house without a plan. If I wrote without a plot, it would just be a pile of bricks. Characters are your servants. They must serve your plot. — Barbara Kingsolver

Hell hath no fury like a woman, or perhaps a homosexual, scorned. — Henry Chupack

Marx wrote that 'History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.' This was witty but far from true. History is never repeated, but it borrows, steals, echoes and commandeers the past to create a hybrid, something unique out of the ingredients of past and present. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain. — Horatius Bonar

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon. — Marilyn Monroe

The wise Sekiso (Shih-shuang) said, 'Stop all your hankerings; let the mildew grow on your lips; make yourself like unto a perfect piece of immaculate silk; let your one thought be eternity; let yourself be like the dead ashes, cold and lifeless; again let yourself be like an old censer in a deserted village shrine! — D.T. Suzuki

Only a dead nation remembers its heroes when they die. Real nations respect them when they are alive. — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan