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“Maybe vagueness has been good for me. The word means two different things in Tokyo and Osaka, you know. In Tokyo it means stupidity, but in Osaka they talk about vagueness in a painting and in a game of Go.”
Source : Yasunari Kawabata (2015). “The Master of Go”, p.87, Random House
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“I have composed too much.”
Source : Letter to Sibelius.
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“All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think,”
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“As much as anything, the anglers will clue you in to the midge hatch. You will see them hunched over in concentration like herons. The better ones will be in as close as they can get to the dimpling trout. What you'll notice is the rythmic flicking of casts toward a porpoising trout and the lack of any other motions. The only exception will be the gentle tug that sets a very small hook attached to the leader by a very delicate tippet. The playing of the trout, if it is a good one, will be a cat-and-mouse sort of ecstacy.”
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“Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.”
Source : "THE PUBLIC EDITOR; Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?". www.nytimes.com. July 25, 2004. 
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“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.”
Source : Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.28, Vintage
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“What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the second had been the opening of the diary. He had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions. The last step was something that would happen in the Ministry of Love. He had accepted it. The end was contained in the beginning.”
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“The guest is always right - even if we have to throw him out.”
