quotes
"It is the same rain that you loved that drowned you." – Badr Shakir al-Sayyab

“True nobility is being superior to your former self."
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)

We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory.
— Louise Gluck
The late great Mary Oliver’s advice for life ❣️ “To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”
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What Friendship feels like. Very true!

"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