"Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world."

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Source : "Thai Air. John Burdett on 'Bangkok Haunts'". "Austin Chronicle" Interview, www.austinchronicle.com. June 15, 2007.

John Burdett

#Buddhist Quotes #Buddhism Quotes #Talking Quotes

“You sit in your tepee and dream and then you go to wherever the dream may take you. It might come true. You wait for real life to catch up.”
“I write in Times New Roman, 12 point, and arrange the margins so that the screen looks like a page from a book. This spurs me on to make the writing as perfect as I can make it.”
“What's needed on Earth is love of the dark side of ourselves”
“Anything you can imagine, you can create.”
“This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.”
“We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas.”
“I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.”
“In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.”

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