"These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality, Contradictoriness, Humor, Freedom, Non-morality, Simplicity, Materiality, Love, and Courage."

-- Reginald Horace Blyth

#Appreciation Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #Grateful Quotes

“Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.”
“We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans”
“It is said that love is blind. Friendship, on the other hand, is clairvoyant....”
“You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.”
“It is only through an abandonment of the idea that those entrusted with power have an exclusive right to decide upon war, and the substitution of a public opinion equipped with all the facts and taken into the confidence of the ruling classes, that peace can be assured to the world.”
“I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.”
“You need to be hyper-aware because it's your survival at stake.”

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“We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day,and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet.”

Source : Eric Jerome Dickey (2004). “Thieves' Paradise”, p.171, Penguin

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