Lakshmi Pratury Quotes
We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.
Lakshmi Pratury
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.
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Octavio Paz
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Maria Mitchell
Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light.
Elizabeth Kostova
We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.
Lakshmi Pratury
