quotes
The England midfielder Paul Gascoigne once said ‘I never predict anything and I never will.’
David Sumpter • Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game (Bloomsbury Sigma)
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.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
You must mourn the loss of your younger self, the person who has gotten you this far but who is no longer equipped to carry you onward.
Brianna Wiest • The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
"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."
Alex Sujong Laughlin • 'Pachinko' explores the dark legacy of Japan’s colonisation of Korea
Note from Hugh while reading Pachinko
“The hand is the window to the mind,” said German philosopher Immanuel Kant.
Denken mit der Hand | LEUCHTTURM1917
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