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I've been reading this book on and off for the last 30 years, since my University days. Where I go this book goes. This example of zuihitsu literature by the lone Buddhist monk Yoshida Kenko has become like an old friend I can leaf through, pick a ra
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“Stories are where memories go when they're forgotten...”
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“Nothing ever begins.
There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs.
The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.”
― Weave World
There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs.
The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.”
― Weave World
“Wherever you go, there you are.”
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“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“The road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think.”
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