Yasusuke Tsukagoshi Quotes & Sayings

Have I been blind, have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind? — Natalie Merchant

I have come to believe ... that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral instruction will not endure the test of being cast into a lifelike mold, and when presented in dramatic form will reveal itself as platitudinous and effete. That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself. — Jane Addams

Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased. — Andrew Tobias

The dead person is not truly dead until the last person who rememebers them dies. — Sarah Monette

Oh, anywhere, driver, anywhere - it doesn't matter. Just keep driving.
It's better here in this taxi than it was walking. It's no good my trying to walk. There is always a glimpse through the crowd of someone who looks like him - someone with his swing of the shoulders, his slant of the hat. And I think it's he, I think he's come back. And my heart goes to scalding water and the buildings sway and bend above me. No, it's better to be here. But I wish the driver would go fast, so fast that people walking by would be a long gray blur, and I could see no swinging shoulders, no slanted hat.
Dorothy Parker, Sentiment, Harper's Bazaar, May 1933. — Dorothy Parker

Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah. — Khalil Gibran

Currently, U.S. society has been encouraged by its political and subsidized mass-media intelligentsia to view U.S. life as a continual "morning in America" paradise, where the only social problems occur in the inner cities. Psychologists call this denial. — Ishmael Reed

We all needed saving once. Now it's our turn to save her too. — Graceley Knox

The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen. — Robert Breault

The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements. — Henry Parry Liddon