"We have certain rules for traditional lyric poetry in Korea. I twist my body, confused by what to say and how to act, facing these rules. Confronting traditional lyricism, I speak with a bare body without the tattoos of culture on it."

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Kim Hyesoon

#Tattoo Quotes #Confused Quotes #Korea Quotes

“I always carry multipurpose products in my handbag.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught.”
“My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'”
“[S]ervants of darkness had no lasting joy in their service. In all of them the will for darkness was a perversion of the will for the light. In all but a few maniacs the satisfaction of the will for darkness was at all times countered by a revulsion which the unhappy spirit either dared not confess even to itself, or else rejected as cowardly and evil.”

Source : Olaf Stapledon (1974). “Darkness and the light”, Hyperion Pr
“I have a lot of people in my life who are truly ridiculous characters, and they're very, very funny people, but they don't really try to be. They're not cracking jokes.”

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“My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.”
“The only thing I want from my money is to die in comfort.”
“Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.”

Source : Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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