"The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him."
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"The planet is fine. The people are fucked."
"Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it."
"You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day."
"I was in love one time, I said as I held up my pinky. I would have held up my index finger, but I wasn't in love that long."
"The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves."
"If you want to know my story, you have to go back to the beginning. Not the beginning-beginning, but about nine months later. You see, I was born as a poor farm boy. Believe it or not, my parents were so poor that they didn’t even own a farm. Nope. Instead, they had to live in a small apartment in the city."
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."
"Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it."
"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."
"I used the boos, and not the booze, as motivation. That led to applause, which I drank up like an alcoholic. I need a refill."
"Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place..."
"Wisdom is having things right in your lifeand knowing why."
"I like to spoon after I fork."
"The Delinquent Girl Chronicles Ages 7-11: Skip ropeAges 12-16: Skip classAge 17: Skip periodAge 18: Skip coming homeAge 19: Skip town"
"My toes are going to come,"-MariannThe Night Owl"
"Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history."
"The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us."
"How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful."
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