“Any questions?"
"Ya why do your drawings suck so bad?”
Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist
Source: Bleach, Volume 01
“Any questions?"
"Ya why do your drawings suck so bad?”
Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist
Source: Bleach, Volume 01
Paul Neilan American novelist
Source: Apathy and Other Small Victories
“At the start of every conversation ask yourself what can I give, not what can I take.”
Isaac Mashman (2000) businessman, speaker
Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, lin…
and the only echo is 'damned fool!... the Devil drives'.
Burton to Lord Houghton as quoted in The Devil Drives: A life of Sir Richard Burton (1984) by Fawn Brodie.
Margaret Atwood book Morning in the Burned House
Morning in the Burned House (1995), The Loneliness of the Military Historian
Context: Instead of this, I tell
what I hope will pass as truth.
A blunt thing, not lovely.
The truth is seldom welcome,
especially at dinner,
though I am good at what I do.
My trade is courage and atrocities.
I look at them and do not condemn.
I write things down the way they happened,
as near as can be remembered.
I don’t ask why, because it is mostly the same.
Wars happen because the ones who start them
think they can win.