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"I'm not an Emontional, but how???I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has happen and it can't be changed", "..But probably it is for good"."

"Writing is a cerebral journey where the writer molds experience into useful thought capsules and thoughtfully takes recitative inventory of their spiritual depot. The act of personal essay writing is a subtle search to track and discover how a contiguous chain of occurrences links the essayist's case history of rational and irrational behavior. Writing a person's life story fosters acceptance of their prior personal failures and serves to open a doorway to living modestly and harmoniously."

"I thought about Kizuki. "So you finally made Naoko yours," I heard myself telling him. Oh, well, she was yours to begin with. Now maybe, she's where she belongs. But in this world, in this imperfect world of the living, I did the best I could for Naoko."

"Don't resent a woman for who she is not, love her for who she is."

"The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left."

"Never change yourself just because others don't accept you, the one who's destined for you will accept you the way you're; not that he doesn't find flaws, but it matters no more for he sees only the spark & magic in your eyes, making you feel special for the rest of your life!"

"I am slowly coming to the conclusion that it's more important to learn to work with what you've got, under the circumstances you've been given, than wishing for different ones."

"Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead."
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"In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?"

"Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free."

"If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier."

"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions."
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