"It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends up being swept away by popular culture in Korea."

-- Kim Hyesoon

#Korea Quotes #Feminism Quotes #Culture Quotes

“The best of a bad bargain.”
“The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.”

Source : "Secrets of the Magus" by Mark Singer, www.newyorker.com. April 5, 1993.
“It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.”

Source : Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.266, Soft Skull Press
“The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences”
“The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.”
“Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.”
“To wonder is to begin to understand.”

Source : Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”
“Life comes when you have knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, when you can see for real, touch, and feel for real, know for real. Then you are truly living.”

Source : The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.35, Penguin

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