quotes
"So I’m on this plane and I’m reading the scene and, all of a sudden, I just started bawling," Hugh says. "It’s a sad scene, but more than that, it was the shock of recognition. I did not live in 1930s Korea and yet, when I read that scene about Yangjin going to the rice merchant, I felt like I experienced it in my bones."
Alex Sujong Laughlin • 'Pachinko' explores the dark legacy of Japan’s colonisation of Korea
Note from Hugh while reading Pachinko
"It is the same rain that you loved that drowned you." – Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory.
— Louise Gluck
What Friendship feels like. Very true!
Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order."
MIT OpenCourseWare • How to Speak
From Patrick Winston’s How to speak session. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY&t=925s
Anyhow, the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I’m far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
— Cormac McCarthy