"The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man."

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Source : Yukio Mishima (1969). “Thirst for love”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Yukio Mishima

#Art Quotes #Men Quotes #Looks Quotes

“I didn't get to be this smart by not being stupid”
“Personally, I have quite the thing for Japanese and Korean boys in their 20s. And I greatly miss Bou. Ancafe hasn't been the same since he left.”
“In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!”

Source : "A Case of Conscience". Book by James Blish, Chapter 13 (p. 158), 1958.
“The objects that are of moderate energy, like our sun or most of the stars that we see in the night sky with the naked eye, are objects in which relatively moderate energy processes are taking place.”
“There are always pressures on decision-makers other than just what is right or what is wrong.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.”

Source : Ernest J. Gaines (2007). “Mozart and Leadbelly”, p.27, Vintage
“Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.”
“Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell.”

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