Mahasweta Das Quotes

#1. The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon

#2. We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.

Fritz Scholder

#3. The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

Kingman Brewster Jr.

#4. He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320

Leo Tolstoy

#5. Addiction is not just for bad people or scumbags
it's a universal disease.

River Phoenix

#6. Since it is proposed to regard chemical reactions as electrical transactions in which reagents act by reason of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for atomic nuclei, it is important to be able to recognize which type of reactivity any given reagent exhibits.

Christopher Kelk Ingold

#7. changes are so frightening.

Norton Juster

#8. The things I talk about and explain couldn't happen - yet, they don't seem impossible - you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane - and it's trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

Steven Wright