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"If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them."
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"When you love someone, you can just live without it. You desire to connect and communicate."

"Research by the Income Center for Tradeshows found that people are twice as likely to remember you if you shake hands. According to the American Management Association, it takes only one-fortieth of a second to create a human bond. Whether you shake someone's hand, squeeze their arm, or touch their shoulder, make these moments count to be remembered favorably."

"You must be able to communicate properly with the people you want to minister to."

"Paths cross all the time in this world of our, sometimes in the strangest places."

"There are souls that can't encounter to each other."

"Everything becomes yours when you touch it with your love. You are connected to everything with your feelings."

"Love in your mind can be felt by some, love in your heart can be felt by many, but love in your soul can be felt by all."

"A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it."

"Temporary friends sometimes bring us to permanent blessings."

"There is no communication with God without communication with God's people."
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"If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them."

"Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, that's 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me."

"The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down."

"Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki."

"I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan."

"My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation."

"When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it."

"As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened."

"I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff."
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