The human capability for imaginaiton is vast, but it’s nowhere near as vast as nature’s in terms of variety, randomness and surprise.
Quotes
James Clavell
here you have to learn to create your own privacy. We’re taught from childhood to disappear within ourselves, to grow inpentrable walls behind which
Mary Wesley – success by older people
Did not publish her first adult novel until 1983 at age 71 – then wrote one best seller after another until her death in
Elizabeth Bowen
Charlotte Bronte Jane eyre
�Do you think I am an automaton? � a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my
James Clavell shogun
James Clavell shogun
Money was the solvent that dissolved the tissue of the 70s like acid on flesh.” About the movie industry, with examples like Spielberg teasing
Value of Van Goghs
“Van gogh (1853-90) sold hardly any paintings during his lifetime, and on his death at age 37 his paintings were deemed nearly worthless in
Ping Pong player and Buffet and Gates
Ariel Hsing was 11 when Warren Buffett first recruited her to play ping pong at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. Ariel Hsing was 11