"Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be."

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Ashleigh Brilliant

#Moving Quotes #Home Quotes #Where You Are Quotes

“Gertrude Stein ... the Madame Curie of language. Because in her deep research she has crushed thousands of tons of matter to extract the radium of the word.”
“I always sang, I always acted, I always played.”
“Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so many Russian writers were so tortured.”
“I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before itâ€™s understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I donâ€™t have a clue what theyâ€™re on about.”
“My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.”
“The Greeks used to use the same stories, the same mythology, time after time, different authors. There was no premium placed upon an original story, and indeed, Shakespeare likewise. A lot of people wrote plays about great kings. They didn't expect a brand-new story. It was what that new author made of the old story. It is probably the same now. We disguise it by inventing what seem to be new stories, but they're basically the same story anyway.”
“The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.”

Source : Yukio Mishima (1969). “Thirst for love”, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.”

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