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“The spiritual master and Krishna are two parallel lines. The train, on two tracks, moves forward. The spiritual Master and Krishna are like these two tracks. They must be served simultaneously. Krishna helps one to find bona fide Spiritual Master and bona fide Spiritual Master helps one to understand Krishna. If one does not get bona fide Spiritual Master, then how he can ever understand Krishna ? You cannot serve Krishna without Spiritual Master, or serve just Spiritual Master without serving Krishna. They must be served simultaneously.”
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“Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.”
Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial
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“There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.”
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“If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.”
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“I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.”
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“I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.”
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“It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.”
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“Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals”
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“We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.”
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“A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.”
Source : Alastair Reynolds (2010). “Terminal World”, p.264, Hachette UK
