Ursa

“You have to plant doubt […] It’s like planting a seed that takes time to germinate. It might look like nothing is happening, but then suddenly the doubt will flower into some kind of action […] Patience is what is needed. People need to hear the truth, not just once but again and again. That’s what the politics of change is all about, patience and repetition, until the truth sinks in.”
― Sybil Claiborne, In the Garden of Dead Cars

“Thua được, mất còn, âu cũng thế
Mộng thừa trong gió thả bay đi”
― Bùi Giáng

“Tốt. Chết cũng phải học. Quẳng hết. Về tay trắng. Giờ ngươi như đứa trẻ tập đi, phải tự bước, không ai bước thay. Đừng sợ ngã. Không ngã nữa. Chỉ bay, nếu nhẹ như hạt bụi.”
― Quế Hương, Đóa hoa không gai và con cừu không rọ mõm

“I believe I’m very normal. I’m hyper-normal. I’m more normal than anyone else I know. I think my thoughts, my indulgences, my desires, my pleasures may at first appear different, but that is only because they are more normal, not because they are more esoteric.

I believe I am bored when other people are bored, only faster. I am interested when others are interested, only more interested. But I also think I’m less, rather than more, intelligent than other people.

By indulging my interests through my life, and perhaps because of rather than despite many failures, I have been able to design my life.”
― Richard Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety 2