Clarence Nash quotes

“Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.”
-- Clarence Nash

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“Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.”

“Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb”

“What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it. pg 29”

“The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.”

Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.2, Courier Corporation

“I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.”

“Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.”

“Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.”

“We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.”

Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated

“Who is not patriotic can not be considered Portuguese.”

Source : "Political ideology of the state Salazar" by Jorge Campinos, Portugalia Editora (p. 22), 1975.

“No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.”