- Farmer
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
- Indian
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- Nov 07, 2020
We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or Thai.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.
- Harmony
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must know our own roles. We should also know the roles that others play, and the rules such roles follow. In this manner, social harmony is maintained. It is when we overstep our roles, or act without knowing them, that social anarchy ensues.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
- Deepening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face in the mirror, imagining how I'd look if I followed the suggestion. I decided to retain the old mug. I was too familiar and comfortable with it. And the final hindrance: the cost.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.
- Excellence
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- Nov 07, 2020
As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of our folk arts. We can do this if we are true to our roots and strive for excellence.
- Caste
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- Nov 07, 2020
Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020