"The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers."

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Source : Simon Winchester (2004). “Korea: a walk through the land of miracles”, ePenguin

Simon Winchester

#Land Quotes #Profound Quotes #Tasks Quotes

“I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.”
“Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.”
“Fashion could be more relevant. It needs to be understood rather than just consumed.”
“I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age.”
“It was frustrating when people loved you and took an interest in you and sometimes worried about you and personally cared what you did with yourself. Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt good bout yourself and worthy of it and generous enough to return it. You could clip it off when you needed to hide or self-destruct and had nothing at all to give." (Lena, 194)”
“The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.”
“My biggest regret is probably that it took me so long to find out what I want to do.”

Source : Interview with Phillip Yung, earmilk.com.
“envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.”

Source : Ada Leverson (1951). “The limit”

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