Javed Akhtar quotes

“Discussing religion was like discussing which cave will be better to live. If you want to follow a religion, follow any religion. It does not matter. If you have decided to commit suicide, does it matter how you do it?”
-- Javed Akhtar

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“There was something missing In my foundation Why blame the poor walls?”
-- Javed Akhtar

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“I am an atheist, I have no religious beliefs. And obviously I don’t believe in spirituality of some kind.”
-- Javed Akhtar

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“The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs”

“Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple”

“Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Jun 30, 2010

“If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.”

“Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?”

Source : Michael A. Stackpole, Aaron Allston (2016). “The X-Wing Series: Star Wars Legends 10-Book Bundle: Rogue Squadron, Wedge's Gamble, The Krytos Trap, The Bacta War, Wraith Squadron ,Iron Fist, Solo Command, Isard's Revenge, Starfighters of Adumar, Mercy Kill”, p.1629, Del Rey

“She who means no mischief does it all.”

Source : Aaron Hill, Urania Hill Johnson (1754). “Poems”, p.135

“My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.”

“I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.”

“Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind.”

“The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or "caves in.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.14