"As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust."

-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Golf Quotes #Rhythm Quotes #Seagull Quotes

“My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.”
“[There was] an openness not found on the East Coast and a generosity of spirit. New York was always formulating the correct ways to work and think while back here [in California] we were always eager to be surprised and engaged in new ways.”
“People from outer space they come up to me, they don't look like Doctor Spock, they don't look like Klingons, all that Star Trek jive. They look like Elvis.”
“Because sometimes, a man could do nothing about where he came from, he could only control where he went”
“...we got this gift of life and we got it one time and we gonna get hurt in it and be hurt going through it and the only thing that'll make that hurt better or hurt less is love.”
“I like my hair long because I have really big ears.”
“I used to think [Shoji] Hamada never drew, until there was a book by Bernard [Leach] published about his work [Hamada: Potter, Tokyo; New York: Harper & Row, 1975] and at the rear of the book were a number of wonderful little sketches, but they were not drawings like Bernard made.”
“All of his life had been about making sure I kept mine.”

Source : Rob Thurman (2012). “Doubletake: A Cal Leandros Novel”, p.50, Penguin

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