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Idiot. Which road do you take when you're running from something weaker than yourself? Or maybe you're the one looking for an excuse to back out.


Watsuki Nobuhiro


#excuses #manga #rurouni-kenshin #cowardice

In Japan, a number of time-honored everyday activities (such as making tea, arranging flowers, and writing) have traditionally been deeply examined by their proponents. Students study how to make tea, perform martial arts, or write with a brush in the most skillful way possible to express themselves with maximum efficiency and minimum strain. Through this efficient, adroit, and creative performance, they arrive at art. But if they continue to delve even more deeply into their art, they discover principles that are truly universal, principles relating to life itself. Then, the art of brush writing becomes shodo—the “Way of the brush”—while the art of arranging flowers is elevated to the status of kado—the “Way of flowers.” Through these Ways or Do forms, the Japanese have sought to realize the Way of living itself. They have approached the universal through the particular.


H.E. Davey


#budo #do #efficiency #flowers #ikebana

It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.


Maud Hart Lovelace


#grass #june #roses #summer #sunshine

Besides,” said Mr Norrell, “I really have no desire to write reviews of other people's books. Modern publications upon magic are the most pernicious things in the world, full of misinformation and wrong opinions.” “Then sir, you may say so. The ruder you are, the more the editors will be delighted.” “But it is my own opinions which I wish to make better known, not other people's.” “Ah, but, sir,” said Lascelles, “it is precisely by passing judgements upon other people's work and pointing out their errors that readers can be made to understand your own opinions better. It is the easiest thing in the world to turn a review to one's own ends. One only need mention the book once or twice and for the rest of the article one may develop one's theme just as one chuses. It is, I assure you, what every body else does.” “Hmm,” said Mr Norrell thoughtfully, “you may be right. But, no. It would seem as if I were lending support to what ought never to have been published in the first place.


Susanna Clarke


#publishing #reviews #satire #satire

I'm in a position where, theoretically, I could play the same ten concertos and make a very good living bouncing around playing Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Barber, but I really think artists should keep pushing limits and trying new things.


Joshua Bell


#artists #barber #bouncing #could #good

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.


Hilaire Belloc


#falls #life #loss #possession #shadow

I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.


Daniel Berrigan


#never #publishing #really #stopped

So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington.


Michael Beschloss


#been #convention #democratic #getting #had

A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.


Jeff Bezos


#because #being #company #get #last

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.


Joe Biden


#me #never #someone #telling #telling the truth






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