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."
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
From LEUCHTTURM1917 - website. My fav stationery
We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory.
— Louise Gluck
What Friendship feels like. Very true!
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
“A problem well-stated is a problem half-solved.” - Charles F. Kettering
The England midfielder Paul Gascoigne once said ‘I never predict anything and I never will.’