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“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."

[MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]”
― Jim Jarmusch

“In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Family Reunion

“Freedom is often the first casualty of war.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The General in His Labyrinth

“We had a threesome
You, me and my depression
Depression fucks hard”
― Benedict Smith

“But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“যার খায় যার পরে, তারেই ধইরা হোগা মারে?”
― Akhteruzzaman Elias

“আমার জানলায় রোদন-রূপসী বৃষ্টির মাতাল মিউজিক, পাতাবাহারেরর ভিজে গন্ধভরা সারি, বিষাদবর্ণ দেওয়াল; অনেকদিন পর আজ আমার ভারি ভালো লাগছে।
ছমছম করা এই রাত্রি, আমারি জন্যে তৈরি এরকম লোনলী-লগ্ন আমি কতোদিন পাইনি, কতোকাল, কোনোদিন নয়। বৃষ্টি-বুনোট এইসব রাতে আমার ঘুম আস না, বৃষ্টিকে ভারি অন্যরকম মনে হয়, বৃষ্টি একজন অচিন দীর্ঘশ্বাস। এইসব রাতে কিছু পড়তে পারি না আমি, সামনে বই খোলা থাকে, অক্ষরগুলো উদাস বয়ে যায়, যেনো অনন্ত-কাল কুমারী থাকবার জন্যে একজন রিক্ত রক্তাক্ত জন্মদান করলো এদের।”
― Akhteruzzaman Elias, অন্য ঘরে অন্য স্বর

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
― Charles Dickens

“And still, after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."

Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky.”
― Hafiz

“The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act.”
― Tara Ploughman

“The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.”
― Umberto Eco, Travels In Hyperreality

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard Feynmann

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
― Cesar A. Cruz

“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“আমরা আরম্ভ করি, শেষ করি না; আড়ম্বর করি, কাজ করি না; যাহা অনুষ্ঠান করি তাহা বিশ্বাস করি না; যাহা বিশ্বাস করি তাহা পালন করি না; ভূরিপরিমাণ বাক্যরচনা করিতে পারি, তিলপরিমাণ আত্মত্যাগ করিতে পারি না; আমরা অহংকার দেখাইয়া পরিতৃপ্ত থাকি, যোগ্যতালাভের চেষ্টা করি না; আমরা সকল কাজেই পরের প্রত্যাশা করি, অথচ পরের ত্রুটি লইয়া আকাশ বিদীর্ণ করিতে থাকি; পরের অনুকরণে আমাদের গর্ব, পরের অনুগ্রহে আমাদের সম্মান, পরের চক্ষে ধূলিনিক্ষেপ করিয়া আমাদের পলিটিকস্‌, এবং নিজের বাক্‌চাতুর্যে নিজের প্রতি ভক্তিবিহ্বল হইয়া উঠাই আমাদের জীবনের প্রধান উদ্দেশ্য।”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“That's what faith is, isn't it? Following the music when we don't hear it.”
― Francisco X. Stork, Marcelo in the Real World

“Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different. ”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones