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"Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, playing always by the rules of the game."
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"To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more."
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"You can only write well, what you have experienced."
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"It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish."
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"The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do."
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"Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again."
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"Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship."
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"A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will."
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"Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, playing always by the rules of the game."
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"The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoeAs he does for a polished mirror for the King."
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"Not many abilities are inherent. Most are acquired through patient practice, and those that are inherent are enhanced and utilized through practice too."
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"I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense of being tossed about by some raging, savage force, in the midst of which lay something absolutely crucial. I had no idea what that was. But I wanted to thrust my hand right inside her body and touch it, whatever it was."
Relationship
"Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain."
Perspective
"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."
Thought
"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit."
Ethics
"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
Experience
"Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells."
Life
"I miss you something awful sometimes."
Emotion
"I'm not totally mad at you. I'm just sad. You're all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside."
Sadness
"I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling."
Psychology
"Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything."
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