"When Im writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write."

-- Ruth Ozeki

#Writing Quotes #Irritation Quotes #Tea Quotes

“People always think that designers hate each other. And we're certainly a competitive lot, but we also enjoy each other's company. No one else knows what you're going through other than another designer.”
“The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.”
“You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.”
“I think desire gives us - imagination - as well as actually often we pay a terrible price for it. Women are punished around their sexuality and perceived to be immoral if they practice a certain kind of promiscuous sexuality. It's a very different thing still if you're a guy, if you're a woman and you're straight.”

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“I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude... The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the disposition of public money. We are endeavoring to reduce the government to the practice of rigid economy to avoid burdening the people.”
“I want to be reborn as a tree; that way I can plant my roots down, never move and can never be separated from the ones I love.”
“If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.”
“I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.”

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