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“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”
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“Goblin tea resembles a nice cup of Earl Grey in much the same way that a catfish resembles the common tabby. They share a name, but one is a nice thing to curl up with on a rainy afternoon, and the other is found in the muck at the bottom of polluted rivers and has bits of debris sticking to it.”
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“The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it”
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“Contained within a given lesson or particular technique is the essence of all techniques. You imitate and study a particular form to grasp the universal principles that allow the technique to work in the first place and that will finally enable you to transcend the form itself to discover the formless.”
― Brush Meditation: A Japanese Way to Mind & Body Harmony
― Brush Meditation: A Japanese Way to Mind & Body Harmony
“She brutalized flour and butter, she visited wartime atrocities to milk and yeast. She committed acts of crumpet.”
― Toad Words and Other Stories
― Toad Words and Other Stories
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