"We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity."

--

E. P. Thompson

#Past Quotes #History Quotes #Looks Quotes

“In the traditional Ikebana things always have to be asymmetrical, because in this they look more natural and balanced.”
“I like to push myself beyond the limit every now and again.”
“If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.”
“The lesson about food is that the most predictable and the most orderly outcomes are always not the best. They are just easier to describe. Fads are orderly. Food carts and fires aren't. Feeding the world could be a delicious mess, full of diverse flavors and sometimes good old-fashioned smoke.”
“I know this in a way from my police background: the second you mention, "The system's racist," one-third of the country simply puts down the book and says, "Oh, it's one of those guys."”
“I'm not into that whole Satanic thing. It's just something to fall back on if you don't have much imagination. Singing you fiftieth song about having lunch with Satan--I'm not into it. It's silly.”
“Experience is the cane of the blind.”

Source : "Masters of the Dew". Book by Jacques Roumain, p. 83, 1946.
“The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.”

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