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The dominating principle that Kano believed lay at the heart of the art was that an opponent’s strength should be used to defeat him. If your opponent is stronger than you and pushes against you, however hard you resist you will be pushed ...more
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Gary Provost
“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.”
Gary Provost

Chuck Palahniuk
“I Am Jack's Medulla Oblongata
I Am Jill's Nipple
I Am Jack's Colon

I Am Jack's Raging Bile Duct
I Am Jack's Cold Sweat
I Am Jack's Complete Lack of Surprise
I Am Jack's Inflamed Sense of Rejection
I Am Jack's Smirking Revenge
I Am Jack's Broken Heart”
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Hervé Le Tellier
“There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
Hervé Le Tellier

William Gibson
“His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it.”
William Gibson, Neuromancer

Rebecca Makkai
“I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had saved.”
Rebecca Makkai

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