"The love I knew was from books.."

--

Source : Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1999). “The Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir”

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

“Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I learn from a tree? The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.”
“It's great fun to memorize somebody's biography, and then liberally play with the real facts of their life and go a step beyond reality.”

Source : "A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.
“The fact that the 7 hours time control allows us to play a great deep game is not of great importance for mass-media.”
“Some bands write and it is just the singer and the guitarist that do it all and then the rest of the band follows their vision. This is cool, and as you know I have been part of a few amazing bands that did this and I am not complaining.”
“The idea is to make sure that these sex offenders are occupied with constructive matters and not focused on the children who may be knocking at their doors this Halloween”
“Post-9/11, we saw an immediate uptick in the amount of people in our stores, all over the country. People wanted that human connection. We are not going to fracture the Starbucks experience.”
“You cannot do something just for the money. You have to do things you believe in and eventually you will make money.”
“I'm waking up to say I tried, instead of waking up to another TV guide.”

You may also like:

Andrea Hirata
Author
Chairil Anwar
Poet
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Former President of Egypt
Jawaharlal Nehru
Former Prime Minister of India
Leo Tolstoy
Writer
Maxim Gorky
Writer
Soe Hok Gie
Activist
Sukarno
Former President of Indonesia
Goenawan Mohamad
Poet