"To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is."

-- Bruce Lee

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“Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?”
“One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.”
“I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.”
“The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.”

Source : Alan Sillitoe (1988). “The far side of the street: fifteen short stories”
“Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic experience itself degenerates into a kind of fetish or idol if it is held up as an end in itself, untested by the rest of life.”

Source : Roger Kimball (2000). “Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age”, Ivan R Dee
“"Why, what I may think after dinner," returns Mr. Jobling, "is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before dinner is another thing."”
“I feel like I know how to write plot.”

Source : "‘Enlightened,’‘Girls’ And ‘Homeland’: Mike White On How His HBO Show Measures Up" by Maureen Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.
“In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even the mountains to its will. Thus we keep duty and honor. We cherish clan and civilization. We are Chinese.”

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