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Quote by Kazuo Koike

“You must choose a road for yourself.”

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Kazuo Koike is a renowned Japanese manga artist, born on May 8, 1936. His works are appreciated for their unique style and profound themes, with 'Rurouni Kenshin' being one of his most famous creations. more

“Every step you take, a million doors open in front of you like poppies; your next step closes them, and another million bloom. You get on a train, you pick up a lamp, you speak, you don’t. What decides why one thing gets picked to be the way it will be? Accident? Fate? Some weakness in ourselves? Forget your harps, your tin-foil angels—the only heaven worth having would be the heaven of answers.”

Source: Brewster: A Novel

“I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.”

People Ifs Government Would Be Turns Rose Debt Spending Government Spending

Author:Jim DeMint

“Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning.”

Drowning Save Me

Book:Brewster

Source: Brewster

“Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me, acknowledge me. It didn’t seem so dangerous at the time.”

People Reason Seems Care Dangerous Skills Weak Acknowledge I Care Coping

Book:Brewster: A Novel

Source: Brewster: A Novel

“It’s a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.”

Race Luck Foolishness Good Luck

Author:Mark Slouka

“History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full stop a comma in embryo. But more: like thought, like water, history is fluid, unpredictable, dangerous. It leaps and surges and doubles back, cuts unpredictable channels, surfaces suddenly in places no one would expect.”

Running Water Cutting Dangerous Sentences Surface Narrative Leap Unpredictable Fluid Vacuums Embryos

Author:Mark Slouka

“I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.”

Littles Soul Pain Ten Busy Circles Righteousness Rats Distrust Spinning

Author:Mark Slouka

“The 'deep' civic function of the humanities . . . is something understood very well by totalitarian societies, which tend to keep close tabs on them, and to circumscribe them in direct proportion to how stringently the population is controlled.”

Wells Humanity Understood Direct Function Population Proportion Controlled Civics

Author:Mark Slouka

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