"I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love"

-- Jean Cocteau

“Memories were the markers of the journey through life. It was necessary to know where you had come from. Only then could you know where you were going.”
“Good enough is never good enough.”

Source : Alfred Bertram Guthrie (1991). “A field guide to writing fiction”, Harpercollins
“This force is unlimited. It is always moving and always flowing. The ancient Hawaiians, the Kahunas, used the metaphor of the flow of a running stream to represent the divine force.”
“I have always preferred to liken the championship to a marathon. You have to know how to start the race, how to take the strain when problems come along and to make sure you don't give any potentially dangerous rivals an advantage. My policy is to ideally have five or six men around the age of 26, a couple of youngsters, a couple round the 28 mark and one or two in their 30s. But the nucleus of the team should be experienced and not too old.”
“The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.”
“Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand have I been less than in a place that was less than beautiful.”
“I wanna say 'China', but I don't really mean 'China.' I just mean the places that Chinese people come from.”
“Do not go to the bottom of things, or you will go to the bottom yourself.”

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