"In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story."

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Source : Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “The Tale of Genji”, p.507, Tuttle Publishing

Murasaki Shikibu

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“But the involuntary tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always such terrible havoc of facts that truth, be it ever so much sought and cared for, appears in history and biography only in a more or less disfigured condition.”

Source : Frederick Niecks (2016). “Frederick Chopin”, p.709, Frederick Niecks
“The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.”
“Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.”
“No nation was ever ruined by trade.”
“Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.”

Source : Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”
“I believe we can create a truly humane, sustainable, and health food production system without killing any animals. I imagine a revolution in veganic agriculture in which small farmers grow a variety of vegetables, fruits, grains, and legumes, all fertilized with vegetable sources.”

Source : Gene Baur (2008). “Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food”, p.217, Simon and Schuster
“We want, or wanted, to believe that without love we would disappear, that love, somehow, would save us that, yeah, if we have love, give love and know love, we are truly alive and if there is no love, there would be no life. The Terror is, we know now, that even without love, life goes on... we just go on there is no mercy killing.”
“I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in.”

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