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Kenzaburo Oe

"Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"The history of man is a must read poetry."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'"

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"I loved psychology and I loved history."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"History is the short trudge from Adam to atom."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."

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Kenzaburo Oe
"By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors."

Reading

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Kenzaburo Oe
"After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped."

Suffering

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Kenzaburo Oe
"However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world."

Society

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Kenzaburo Oe
"From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large."

Power

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Kenzaburo Oe
"I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large."

Literature

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Kenzaburo Oe
"Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters."

Constitution

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Kenzaburo Oe
"The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic."

Criticism

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Kenzaburo Oe
"The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War."

Peace

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Kenzaburo Oe
"The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia."

Nation

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Kenzaburo Oe
"After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution."

War

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