Algis Tamosaitis
@algis
Writer of Japan or Die
Algis Tamosaitis
japanordie.beehiiv.com
“I want everything quiet and simple. For me: walking barefoot, sitting still, reading, listening to stories, and now and then telling some myself. Eating fruit, drinking milk, longing to create, but with patience and many insights.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Lou Salomé witten c. March 1904
I like writing that is unsummarizable, a kernel that cannot be condensed, that must be uttered exactly as it is.
Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments
"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things."
- Ray Bradbury
Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer.
Pico Iyer • A Beginner's Guide to Japan
Modern aspiration is not about having money to buy things, but having taste to know what to buy.
The world would benefit from a proliferation of omakase in every sphere of life.