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The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs. ”
I held my father's hand while he died of cancer, and it's really painful when you do something like that up close and personal. My mother was already gone, and I was very, very close to my father. ”
I see myself as a survivor, and I'm not ashamed to say I'm a survivor. To me, survivor implies strength, implies that I have been through something and I made it out the other side. ”
If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art openings. In the end, it depends on the strength of ideas in each piece. ”
My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world. ”
I like seeing my physical progress through a volume, particularly if it's a big book. ”
Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others. ”
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head. ”
Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity. ”
India has a long history with devotional, even obsessive love, be it for a personal god or for your lover. ”