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“If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.”
― John Updike, Rabbit, Run

“Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.”
― John Updike, Rabbit, Run

“You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.”
― John Updike, Rabbit, Run

“There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.”
― John Updike, Rabbit, Run

“I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate.”
― John Updike, Rabbit, Run

“With his white collar he forges god’s name on every word he speaks”
― John Updike, Rabbit, Run

“They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him.”
― John Updike, Rabbit, Run

“Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.”
― John Updike, Rabbit, Run

“I warned you, he says, I warned you, Harry, but youth is deaf. Youth is careless.”
― John Updike, Rabbit, Run

“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems

“We have not noticed how fast the rest has risen. Most of the industrialized world--and a good part of the nonindustrialized world as well--has better cell phone service than the United States. Broadband is faster and cheaper across the industrial world, from Canada to France to Japan, and the United States now stands sixteenth in the world in broadband penetration per capita. Americans are constantly told by their politicians that the only thing we have to learn from other countries' health care systems is to be thankful for ours. Most Americans ignore the fact that a third of the country's public schools are totally dysfunctional (because their children go to the other two-thirds). The American litigation system is now routinely referred to as a huge cost to doing business, but no one dares propose any reform of it. Our mortgage deduction for housing costs a staggering $80 billion a year, and we are told it is crucial to support home ownership, except that Margaret Thatcher eliminated it in Britain, and yet that country has the same rate of home ownership as the United States. We rarely look around and notice other options and alternatives, convinced that "we're number one.”
― Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World

“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”
― Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea

“But tomorrow I'll be a different person, never again the person I was. Not that anyone will notice after I'm back in Japan. On the outside nothing will be different. But something inside has burned up and vanished. Blood has been shed, and something inside me is gone. Head down, without a word, that something makes its exit. The door opens; the door shuts. The light goes out. This is the last day for the person I am right now. The very last twilight. When dawn comes, the person I am won't be here anymore. Someone else will occupy this body.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart