"Personally, it's changed my game - it's how I think now. Can't imagine writing more than a paragraph in anything that doesn't do MMD."

-- Merlin Mann

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Games Quotes

“We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west . . . Yet before the ashes of the council are cold, the Great Father is building his forts among us. . . . His presence here is . . . an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we then to give up their sacred graves to be allowed for corn?”
“Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.”
“A functioning police state needs no police.”
“The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making. Yet pleasure in the work canâ€™t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive. A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.”
“My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes.”
“The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.”

Source : Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Snow Country”, p.66, Vintage
“All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.”
“It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.”

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