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“One bright moonlit night, when I was on a journey and staying in a house by a bamboo grove, I awoke to the sound of the leaves rustling in the wind. As I lay there, unable to go back to sleep, I wrote the poem,
'Night after night I lie awake,
Listening to the rustle of the bamboo leaves,
And a strange sadness fills my heart.”
― As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
'Night after night I lie awake,
Listening to the rustle of the bamboo leaves,
And a strange sadness fills my heart.”
― As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
“Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie.”
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“It is their scent alone
That tells me what those scattered orange blossoms are.
Else I should have thought they were
Untimely flakes of snow.”
― As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
That tells me what those scattered orange blossoms are.
Else I should have thought they were
Untimely flakes of snow.”
― As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
“This book is badly written, presents scientifically incorrect, racist ideas as fact, and takes a comically long time to tell a boring story about formulating an idiotic military plan that didn't work.”
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“The thing is, May," the hum said, "the goal of advertising is to rip a hole in your heart so it can then fill that hole with plastic, or with any other materials that can be yanked out of the earth and, after brief sojourns as objects of desire, be converted to waste.”
― Hum
― Hum
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