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“It's just good hospitality,' Tokue countered.
‘For the customers?'
‘No. The beans.'
‘The beans?'
‘Because they came all the way from Canada. For us.”
― Durian Sukegawa, Sweet Bean Paste

“Excuses are tools of incompetence used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness, and those who use them seldom specialize in anything else.”
― Vernon Brundage Jr., Shoot Your Shot: A Sport-Inspired Guide To Living Your Best Life

“In every human heart is a place where you put your broken dreams. When something doesn't work out, no matter what it may be, you just have to give it up and stuff it in with your broken dreams. And make sure you keep the lid on tight.”
― Sayo Masuda

“I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“When we are young, we are motivated by desire, and as we get older, by fear. Maybe as life goes on and your heart gets broken a few times, it's easier to be attached to things rather than people.”
― Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

“I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.”
― Flannery O'Connor