"From the first, in people and in things, there is no such thing as trash. These words point to the fundamental truth of Buddhism, a truth I could not as yet conceive in those days."

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Source : "Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity". Book by Soko Morinaga, p. 29, June 15, 2002.

Soko Morinaga

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“Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.”

Source : Quoted in Pete Hamill A Drinking Life (1994).
“Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. 'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.â€™ ...from a Himmel street window, he wrote, the stars set fire to my eyes.”
“But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power.”
“I have lots of ideas and put pressure on myself to action them all. This can make life very busy so organisation can sometimes be crazy.”
“If you ask me why I've succeeded it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.”

Source : "Brian McDermott, the marine who became a world-beater with Leeds". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2013.
“I had a perfect pregnancy and a perfect delivery. I was very blessed.”

Source : "Jamie Lynn Spears Describes 'Perfect Delivery' And New Motherhood" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. July 9, 2008.
“Trust me-the day I'm not into football, I'll walk away.”
“I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.”

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