"Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die"

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Source : Matsuo Basho (2006). “Narrow Road to the Interior”, p.132, Shambhala Publications

Matsuo Basho

#Cicadas Quotes #Cry Quotes

“There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.”
“My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.”
“My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city. It is Catania, on the eastern coast of Sicily. It's a place filled with sun, close to the beach.”
“I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.”
“Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.”
“I think I was shy as a young woman and realized that photography was an ideal way of expressing myself, of telling people what was going on without having to talk.”

Source : Louise Baring, Martine Franck (2007). “Martine Franck”, Phaidon Press
“[John Calvin] writes clearly, directly, without artifice, and gets straight to the practical heart of the matter.”
“Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.”

Source : Quoted in John Robert Columbo, Popcorn in Paradise (1980)

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