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“Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
― The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces
― The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces

“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that
without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
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without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
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“এনজিও গুলো গরীবের জন্য কাজ করলেও এর হর্তা-কর্তারা রাজকীয়ভাবে চলাফেরা করে।”
― করাচি
― করাচি

“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”
― Gulliver’s Travels
― Gulliver’s Travels

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