What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved.
I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate book: once you had read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look the same.
Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then not only does it reflect the character and temperament of the artist but. . . also betrays his heart rate, his breathing.
It would evidently take more than a political regime, more than dire poverty to stop a woman from wanting to be well-dressed: it was a desire as old as the world, as old as the desire for children.
In the end we had changed the position of the hands so many times that we had no idea what the time really was.
Our imagination is dictated by who we are. (198)
I try not to be but Im super-neurotic about diet. Im neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! Im like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And Im super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes.
When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal.
Life is simple. Life is not complicated. Life is only one thing: Identify yourself.
I'm a visual filmmaker so the camera is a big part of my storytelling tool and it's something that I really rely on to tell a scene or create the suspense that I need and create the emotion of a scene or a sequence.