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Pankaj Mishra Quotes

Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: indian
Birth: 1969

Topics

Community Speak Thinking Powerful

I'll be out having a good time and stick my gum on the side of my cup - I know, it's a horrible habit - and people will steal the cup.

Good Time Habit Having A Good Time

I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that I was really interested in was there, but I knew nothing, no education, no art education, no education beyond high school. It was extremely overwhelming and it still is.

Education History Art School Think

But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

Responsibility Money Caring Society

I recycle. I have a house in the south of France and I have a small garden. My name is Dujardin - 'from the garden.' I grow carrots, peppers, strawberries, green beans, and things for salads, but there are lots of wild boars all around and they steal the food.

Food Green Small Name Grow House

I wrote a staggeringly bad poem when I was 19 after a girlfriend dumped me. I seem to remember comparing her to a tarantula. It was all very E. J. Thribb of me.

Me Remember Bad Girlfriend Seem Her

The first album was literally the first 12 songs I've ever written.

First Songs Album Literally Ever

I think people who read Internet blogs are usually trying to fit it in during a busy part of their day, and there's only so much information that you digest. Whereas an experience with a book is a little more comfortable, and I think people are a little more willing to really delve into information.

Past Heroes Quite Met Few Actually

A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.

Alone I Am Thought Self Kind Always

I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.

Lisa Marie Presley

Food Exercise Smoke Wrong Nails Eat

In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

Justice Important Crime Organized

People see me as a theoretician, but my music is also seductive, even spiritual.

Music Spiritual People Me See Even

I never had confidence - never. The hardest thing to know is your own worth, and it took me years and years to find out what mine is.

Confidence Me Worth Find Know Never

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