"She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance."

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Source : Lian Hearn (2008). “Brilliance of the Moon: Tales of the Otori”, p.296, Pan Macmillan

Lian Hearn

#Prayer Quotes #Everyday Quotes #World Quotes

“What is real is beyond all reach.”
“If you're going to succeed, then you just have to be thick-skinned. It's something I developed early in my career, and it just goes with the territory.”
“On the Internet, news is consumed a la carte. If someone shows up on the main page of a website and doesn't see anything of interest, they leave. This negatively impacts ad revenues. The solution on the Internet is to pack news websites full of things that will draw people in, regardless of whether they are news or not.”

Source : "Fark's Drew Curtis On How "News" Isn't News". Interview with Brian Montopoli, www.cbsnews.com. May 23, 2007.
“The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.”
“I'm not a super prolific creator, I don't make stuff everyday, and I don't have a soundtrack constantly playing in my head. I think I had years and years of pent-up aesthetic ideas that I wanted to express.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When persons are present to one another they can function not merely as physical instruments but also as communicative ones. This possibility, no less than the physical one, is fateful for everyone concerned and in every society appears to come under strict normative regulation, giving rise to a kind of communication traffic order...”

Source : Erving Goffman (2008). “Behavior in Public Places”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
“I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.”
“I'm not an idealist anymore, I'm a bitter realist.”

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