Trevanian Quote
Has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does not have to be bold, so poignant it does not have to be pretty, so true it does not have to be real. is understanding, rather than knowledge. Eloquent silence. In demeanor, it is modesty without pudency. In art, where the spirit of takes the form of , it is elegant simplicity, articulate brevity. In philosophy, where emerges as , it is spiritual tranquility that is not passive; it is being without the angst of becoming. And in the personality of a man, it is . . . how does one say it? Authority without domination? Something like that.Nicholai’s imagination was galvanized by the concept of . No other ideal had ever touched him so. How does one achieve this , sir?One does not achieve it, one . . . discovers it. And only a few men of infinite refinement ever do that. Men like my friend Otake-san.Meaning that one must learn a great deal to arrive at ?Meaning, rather, that one must pass through knowledge and arrive at simplicity.
Has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does not have to be bold, so poignant it does not have to be pretty, so true it does not have to be real. is understanding, rather than knowledge. Eloquent silence. In demeanor, it is modesty without pudency. In art, where the spirit of takes the form of , it is elegant simplicity, articulate brevity. In philosophy, where emerges as , it is spiritual tranquility that is not passive; it is being without the angst of becoming. And in the personality of a man, it is . . . how does one say it? Authority without domination? Something like that.Nicholai’s imagination was galvanized by the concept of . No other ideal had ever touched him so. How does one achieve this , sir?One does not achieve it, one . . . discovers it. And only a few men of infinite refinement ever do that. Men like my friend Otake-san.Meaning that one must learn a great deal to arrive at ?Meaning, rather, that one must pass through knowledge and arrive at simplicity.
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Between 1972 and 1983, five of his novels sold more than a million copies each. He was described as "the only writer of airport paperbacks to be compared to Zola, Ian Fleming, Poe, and Chaucer." Whitaker adamantly avoided publicity for most of his life, his real name a closely held secret for many years. The 1980 reference book Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers listed his real name in its Trevanian entry.