"Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved."

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Source : Bai Juyi, “On The Lake (1)”

Bai Juyi

#Autumn Quotes #Dark Quotes #Winter Quotes

“My wife is not my best sexual partner, but she's good with the housework.”
“The cure for grief is motion.”
“There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all the objects in the world would be shards of bare mute blankness, spinning wildly out of orbit, if we didn't bind them together with stories.”

Source : Brian Morton (1999). “Starting Out in the Evening”, Berkley Publishing Group
“To Jim Duggan, taking a shower is a high risk maneuver.”
“[Mujib Rahman] is mad, mad! And they're all mad, the press included, who repeat after him, "Three million dead, three million dead!" The Indians had let out the figure of one million. He came along and doubled it. Then tripled it. It's a characteristic of the man - he'd done the same for the hurricane.”

Source : Source: dhakadigest.net
“I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.”
“He's not a bold decision maker like Newt Gingrich is. Every time I talk to him, he says 'well let me think about it.'”

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