"For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other."

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Source : Yukio Mishima (2011). “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”, p.109, Tuttle Publishing

Yukio Mishima

#Hands Quotes #Impossible Quotes #Eternity Quotes

“I'm easy with employees. I make sure they get credit for their work. Naturally, sometimes a guy will screw up, and I'll have to apply some "retraining."”

Source : Source: blog.caranddriver.com
“Donâ€™t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.”
“There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.”
“I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.”
“All those tough guys who want to scare the world into seeing them as men . . . who don't know how to be a man with a woman, only abrute or a boy, who fill up the divorce courts; all those corporate raiders and rain-forest burners and war starters who want more in hopes that will make them feel better; . . . are suffering from Father Hunger. They go through their puberty rituals day after day for a lifetime, waiting for a father to anoint them and say "Attaboy," to treat them as good enough to be considered a man.”
“My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.”
“I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can't do anything to intimidate me.”

Source : "A Disney Princess, Not Winking but Floating" by Margy Rochlin, www.nytimes.com. November 4, 2007.
“The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own.”

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