#al

People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#aware #come #dialogue #every #hold

Life is a horizontal fall. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#horizontal #life #life is a

Scholars, theologians, and even poets have yet to be able to truly describe and touch upon the beauty, romance, and magic of a relationship built on 100% authenticity ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#beauty #honesty #inspirational #life #love

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#always #liar #poet #speaks #truth

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#background #became #bigger #books #eventually

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#i #nonfiction #problem #talent #well

Nothing endures but personal qualities. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#nothing #personal #qualities

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#carve #had #i #journalism #little

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#been #before #came #cases #dark

It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn't seem to appeal very widely. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#countries #drawback #insight #interest #into