Soman Chainani quotes

“Only once you destroy who you think you are can you embrace who you truly are”
-- Soman Chainani

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“It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.”
-- Soman Chainani

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“Everytime you do a Good Deed with true intention, your soul grows purer.”
-- Soman Chainani

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“If you get trapped in your head and out of your body during the writing process, it's very easy to make wrong turns. You have to really be in touch with your heart rather than your head to write the novel you want.”
-- Soman Chainani

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“I never think of my work as writing for a young audience, frankly, because I think it risks talking 'down' to them. The idea is for these books to work just as well as for adults as kids. As for what readers will take away, I just want them to love being in the world and see it as a safe place to explore things that adults are often uncomfortable talking to them about.”
-- Soman Chainani

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“Beauty can only fight the truth for so long.”
-- Soman Chainani

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“In the forest of primeval A school for Good and Evil Twin towers like two heads One for the pure And one for the wicked Try to escape you'll always fail, The only way out is Through a fairytale.”
-- Soman Chainani

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“Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.”

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.”

“Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.”

“Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.

“Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.”

“The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.”

Source : "To His Coy Mistress" l. 31 (1681)

“I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.”

Source : "Ariel Pink: 'I'm not that guy everyone hates'". Interview with Rhik Samadder, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2014.

“Embrace reality by imagination.”

Source : Austin Osman Spare (2007). “The Writings of Austin Osman Spare: Anathema of Zos, the Book of Pleasure and the Focus of Life”, p.98, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

“The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.”

“A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”