"Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops."

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Matsuo Basho

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“'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world's wealth - and nobody went to jail.”

Source : "Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. February 16, 2011.
“They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them.”
“Writing stories, adopting other characters, making up fantastic stories and tales, this is a way of perhaps enhancing who I am. Writing stories takes a commonplace old life and makes it all somehow more interesting. And hopefully I can do that in a way that touches a lot of people in their lives, too.”

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“This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.”
“As with most things in life, Lady Maccon preferred the civilized exterior to the dark underbelly (with the exception of pork products, of course.)”
“People are always making a fuss over my $15-20-million salaries. Believe me, the amount is meaningless once my wife, Maria, finds out about it. She's already spent half of my salary from Terminator 7!”
“Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.”
“Rest and play, are as vital to our health as nutrition and exercise”

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