quotes
by Madhuri · updated 1mo ago
quotes
- "So I’m on this plane and I’m reading the scene and, all of a sudden, I just started bawling," Hugh says. "It’s a sad scene, but more than that, it was the shock of recognition. I did not live in 1930s Korea and yet, when I read that scene about Yangjin going to the rice merchant, I felt like I experienced it in my bones."
from 'Pachinko' explores the dark legacy of Japan’s colonisation of Korea by Alex Sujong Laughlin
Madhuri added 1mo ago
Note from Hugh while reading Pachinko
"It is the same rain that you loved that drowned you." – Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
Madhuri added 2mo ago
Madhuri added 5mo ago
- Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order."
from How to Speak by MIT OpenCourseWare
Madhuri added 5mo ago
Madhuri added 5mo ago
Anyhow, the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I’m far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me.
from Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
Madhuri added 5mo ago
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
— Cormac McCarthy
Madhuri added 5mo ago
