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The British could leave and half India wouldn't notice us leaving just as they didn't notice us arriving. All our reforms of administration might be reforms on the moon for all it has to do with them..

The Siege of Krishnapur

Blame anchors us into the past; a place we cannot change. Acceptance frees us to the future.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.

Stranger in a Strange Land

The clearing is often only happening for us, and those who love us most cannot see or believe in our nascent visions.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

This is our big chance to see what people think of us. The real us. We have to show em there's nothing to be afraid of. If we don't get over our fears, they never will.

Monster High

I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.

The Museum of Innocence

Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.

The Museum of Innocence

We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.

The Moment Under the Moment: Stories, a Libretto, Essays, and Sketches

I had made a decision, although I hardly knew it yet. It's often that way with decisions, they're made in some hidden part of us and the awareness secretes itself slowly into that conscious part of us that imagines it decides.

Mistaken

The people who lead us are of us. We put them in office and we can take them out. America proves that the people can govern themselves.

My Country 'Tis of Thee

This “freedom” put a proud people in chains And turned free men into slaves “Independence” made us weak And slaughtered us In the name of kindness This is democracy by the whip And the fear of chains With a whirlwind at its core

My Life with the Taliban

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

Never Change

Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us.

The News: A User's Manual

Too many abused beers have suffered in the name of networking. Let us find a better way to mix torture and business.

#Networking is people looking for people looking for people

Come now and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they gave got none. Frei lebt wer sterben kann.

Out of Africa

As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

Language in Action

She placed her make-up bag in front of her, opened it, then ignored the contents. She used it for show and always as a warning to the body that she may one day use it!

Love of Chocolate

Love grants us the power to forgive, to love when we’re hurt, but it also gives us the courage to let go, and the understanding that to love, we love freely—at our own choice.

The Lover's Game

George, I know you’re tired. But President Lincoln, he didn’t free us to be lazy and no good. He freed us to work hard and improve ourselves.”-George’s Grandmother.

Life Is So Good