It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror (Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger)
He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it
He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it (Mark Helprin)
Liao writes with the courage of a man who knows loss and doesn’t fear it. There is nothing to make him notice like an official injunction against noticing, nothing to make him listen like official deafness, nothing that drives him to make us see like the blindness that officialdom seeks to impose
Liao writes with the courage of a man who knows loss and doesn’t fear it. There is nothing to make him notice like an official injunction against noticing, nothing to make him listen like official deafness, nothing that drives him to make us see like the blindness that officialdom seeks to impose (Liao Yiwu, The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up)
Fans in China are very different from those overseas. In China, many people really love me and care about my life. But there is always some jealousy mixed up in this feeling of love. I think that is the big difference. Overseas, there is none of that
Fans in China are very different from those overseas. In China, many people really love me and care about my life. But there is always some jealousy mixed up in this feeling of love. I think that is the big difference. Overseas, there is none of that (Gong Li)
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire (François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims)
Important decisions are better made after a good nights sleep – Steven Aitchison
Important decisions are better made after a good nights sleep – Steven Aitchison
Future shackled is when uncertainty is the enemy that must be beaten into submission
Future shackled is when uncertainty is the enemy that must be beaten into submission (Bill Jensen, Future Strong)
What made the difference between choosing to die and deciding to live?Was it the weight of sadness that buckled them over and dragged them away from all sane, rational thoughts with an anchor of hopelessness so intense they just gave up fighting? – Heidi R. Kling, Paint My Body Red
What made the difference between choosing to die and deciding to live?Was it the weight of sadness that buckled them over and dragged them away from all sane, rational thoughts with an anchor of hopelessness so intense they just gave up fighting? – Heidi R. Kling, Paint My Body Red.
Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end
Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end (Neil Gaiman, American Gods)
Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It’s late afternoon – the sun is just setting (a cold yellow colour) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my window seat using the last light to write to you
Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It’s late afternoon – the sun is just setting (a cold yellow colour) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my window seat using the last light to write to you (Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs)