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-- Juan Goytisolo

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“Me being from a Celtic culture that tends to emphasize directness, conflict, openness has a big effect on my living in Japan, which tends to focus on indirectness, avoidance of conflict and keeping things close to your chest. So that has led to quite a lot of cultural misunderstandings in dealing with this East Asian culture I live in.”
“I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“O Christian, never be proud of things that are so transient, injurious, and uncertain as the riches of this evil world! But set your heart on the true and durable riches of grace in Christ Jesus.”

Source : Isaac Ambrose “The Christian Warrior”, Digital Puritan Press
“I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed.”
“What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?”
“But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.”

Source : Sarah Doudney (1871). “Psalms of life”, p.91
“We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.”
“Every day is bizarre.”

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