Pankaj Mishra Quotes
After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
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Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.
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My work... is my legacy.
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I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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I had to have shoulder reconstruction.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
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I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.
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If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.
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After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
