Kantham Chatlapalli Quotes & Sayings

Letter 74

I still have the first letter that you wrote to me. I carry it with me like a garden in my pocket.

If you come to me at this moment
your minutes will become hours
your hours will become days
and your days will become a lifetime.

I am never sure if I am reading the letter or the letter is reading me. — Gregory Colbert

I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse. — Eskinder Nega

I was a wicked pirate assassin on my way to kill. Arrgh! — Bobby Adair

In the transcribing and the editing, you want some retention of how the person speaks - you don't want to edit out all of the hesitations and idiosyncrasies. And to get people to say something they've never said before. That's big. — Sheila Heti

Erotic attention often serves as the catalyst for an intimate connection between two people, but it is not a sign of love. — Bell Hooks

David Foster Wallace: What writers have is a license and also the freedom to sit - to sit, clench their fists, and make themselves be excruciatingly aware of the stuff that we're mostly aware of only on a certain level. And that if the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. Is to wake the reader up to stuff that the reader's been aware of all the time. And it's not a question of the writer having more capacity than the average person. It's that the writer is willing I think to cut off, cut himself off from certain stuff, and develop ... and just, and think really hard. Which not everybody has the luxury to do. — David Lipsky

The fire that burns against the cold. — George R R Martin

Who knows what anyone deserves? We like to play judge and jury, but we're all a rotten mess under our skins. — Paula McLain

If we say we have "faith," then we must live like we do. And the "waiting place" is precisely the "place" God uses to examine our faith and see if it is genuine. — Cherie Hill

And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play. — Yasmine Galenorn

The elevator made a muted ding sound to announce its arrival at last, but I was no longer interested, because I had a thought. Every now and then I do have thoughts. Most of them never make it all the way to the surface, probably because of a lifetime of trying to seem human. But this one came slowly up and, like a gas bubble bursting through mud, popped brightly in my brain. "Saturday morning?" I said. "Do you remember what time? — Jeff Lindsay

The fact that some things are mysterious or that they touch on mystery isn't in some way a capitulation, and one should realize that there are some things that we may never understand and, to that extent, should be humbled by that. — Simon Conway Morris