"If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden."

-- Haruki Murakami

#Writing Quotes #Garden Quotes #Stories Quotes

“He has not truly lived who has not lived for others, in sympathy and in harmony with his fellows.”
“The best way to make Communists is to put the Americans into a place where there were no Communists before.”
“Since I retired to Cold Mountain I've lived by eating mountain fruits What is there to worry about? Life passes according to karma The months pass like a flowing stream Days and nights like sparks from flint Heaven and earth endlessly change While I sit happily among these cliffs”
“Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions.”
“To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.”
“Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it seems, one golden morning, the Bush awakes, a living thing. Flowers bloom, birds sing, and all the world puts on its gayest dress to greet the laughing Spring.”
“The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We are merely the most confused.”
“Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.”

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