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Albert Einstein
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
Dylan Thomas
I fell in love – that is the only expression I can think of – at once, and am still at the mercy of words, though sometimes now, knowing a little of their behavior very well, I think I can influence them slightly and have even learned to beat them now and then, which they appear to enjoy.
Eddie Cantor
It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.
Edward Abbey
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
e e cummings
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Eyler Coates
We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually produce a masterpiece. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Gustave Flaubert
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
Going to the Opera is like making love; we get bored but we come back.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
John Steinbeck
Only through imitation do we develop toward originality.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
Leonard Cohen
Ring the bells that still can ring;
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything;
That's how the light gets in.
Montaigne
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Paul Sweeney
You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Peter Altenberg
I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a little pocket mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in her purse; one that reflects small blemishes, and some great beauties, when held close enough to the heart.
Robert Frost
In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money.
Satchel Paige
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
Thomas Mann
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
V S Naipaul
The writer has only to listen very carefully and with a clear heart to what people say to him, and ask the next question, and the next.

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Sudden Debt: A Blast From The Past

Thursday, August 11, 2011 by Abhinav Maurya

Sudden Debt: A Blast From The Past: "I have been re-reading Gustave LeBon's The Crowd , the 1895 classic on the psychology of herd ('crowd') behavior. The French social psycho..."

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5 Comments:

    On December 24, 2011 at 2:53 PM Shanti Swaroop said...

    Dear Abhinav,
    I see you are interested in Social Sciences. Can you suggest some good reads on Pyschology, Sociology, Philosophy. I mean on Social Sciences

    On December 24, 2011 at 2:54 PM Shanti Swaroop said...

    Can you suggest some good reds in sociology, Pyschology and Philosophy

    On December 27, 2011 at 10:16 AM Harsh said...

    If you are serious about philosophy take a look at Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy here http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html.

    Its fairly comprehensive and it should keep one busy for quite a while.

    If you want philosophical novels, grab any Ayn Rand book. Especially Fountainhead and Atlas shrugged.

    On December 29, 2011 at 12:03 AM Abhinav Maurya said...

    Thanks for the link. I try to read books in hard copy.

    I read Ayn Rand about 7-8 years ago. Not as much philosophy as capitalist propaganda. Not a fan anymore.

    Have moved on to more worthwhile writers like Doris Lessing, Milan Kundera, Franz Kafka, Haruki Murakami, Vidia Naipaul, etc. Try these if you are interested in the quintessential philosophical novel.

    On December 31, 2011 at 2:09 PM Harsh said...

    I agree. But philosophy apart, I liked Atlas Shrugged for its story. Yes, I have started reading Kafka and he blows me away, totally !!. I too read hard copies. It just happened that I bumped into the Stanford site.

    Thanks...

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