According to him the best quality of the leaves must have "creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be
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“Finesse and refinement are admirable qualities, but they are not the artist’s ultimate goals; and, indeed, they can stand in the way of those goals.”
― Harvest
― Harvest
“Computers had their origin in military cryptography—in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression.”
― You
― You
“It is at this point in the book that the author famously laments that despite our ability to bring food from the earth, we are incapable of creating a system in which the hungry can be fed.”
― Μιλώντας στην κόρη μου για την οικονομία
― Μιλώντας στην κόρη μου για την οικονομία
“You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live in the expectation of extraordinary experiences: from books, from people, from journeys, from events, from what tomorrow has in store. But not you. You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“History, largely experienced previously as a series of natural disasters, could now be seen as a movement in which everyone could potentially enlist.”
― Age of Anger: A History of the Present
― Age of Anger: A History of the Present
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