Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.
~ Janet Malcolm
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Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.
~ Janet Malcolm
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Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.
~ Sun Tzu
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Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.
~ Sun Tzu
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It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.
~ Sun Tzu
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“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
~ Sun Tzu
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.
~ Janet Malcolm
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Speed is the essence of war. Take advantage of the enemy’s unpreparedness; travel by unexpected routes and strike him where he has taken no precautions.
~ Sun Tzu
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Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
~ Sun Tzu
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Photography is a medium of inescapable truthfulness. The camera doesn’t know how to lie.
~ Janet Malcolm
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It is only by a great effort that we rouse ourselves to act, to fight, to struggle, to be heard above the wind, to crush flowers as we walk.
~ Janet Malcolm
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