Maruyama Blower Quotes & Sayings

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method. — Alan Dundes

No one has made
the art by which one makes the works
of art. Each one who speaks speaks
as a convocation. We live as councils
of ghosts. It is not "human genius"
that makes us human, but an old love,
an old intelligence of the heart
we gather to us from the world,
from the creatures, from the angels
of inspiration, from the dead--
an intelligence merely nonexistent
to those who do not have it, but --
to those who have it more dear than life. — Wendell Berry

Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy. — Robert Burton

I revisit my book piles. Trying not to be sidetracked or lured into another dimension. — Patti Smith

If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my forties flipping my husband the bird over potato chips, I'd say you were crazy. — Jenna McCarthy

If you are much cleverer than your enemy, you can even help your enemy to stay alive and not to harm himself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan