Literary success of any enduring kind is made by refusing to do what publishers want, by refusing to write what the public wants, by refusing to accept any popular standard, by refusing to write anything to order.
All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little. - Lafcadio Hearn
All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.
- Lafcadio Hearn
I may venture to say, loosely, that in Judo there is a sort of counter for every twist, wrench, pull, push or bend. Only the Judo expert does not opp… - Lafcadio Hearn
I may venture to say, loosely, that in Judo there is a sort of counter for every twist, wrench, pull, push or bend. Only the Judo expert does not opp…
Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was. - Lafcadio Hearn
Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of … - Lafcadio Hearn
It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of …
One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index. - Lafcadio Hearn
One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone. - Lafcadio Hearn
In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone.
One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong. - Lafcadio Hearn
One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.
But I confess that "my mind to me a kingdom is" - not! Rather it is a fantastical republic, daily troubled by more revolutions than ever occurred in … - Lafcadio Hearn
But I confess that "my mind to me a kingdom is" - not! Rather it is a fantastical republic, daily troubled by more revolutions than ever occurred in …
A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable. - Lafcadio Hearn
A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
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