Even if I am not the honestest type in the world I don’t want to lie more than is average.
– Saul Bellow
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- The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop. – Saul Bellow
- Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy. – Saul Bellow
- During my school years, I was never a brilliant student, but just an average one, with only above average level of curiosity. – Abhijit Naskar
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- It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order – and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order. – Douglas R Hofstadter
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