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Quotes by Japanese Authors
"Instead of complaining about your situation, actually do something about it. Playing 'poor me' just ain't sexy."
"If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it."
"Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library."
"For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular."
"One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake."
"Sexual role-play is the enactment of a highly imaginative and erotic psychodrama where the individual is given creative license to express the polar opposite qualities of their multifaceted personality, bringing a profound sense of psychological release and rejuvenation to those involved."
"Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, playing always by the rules of the game."
"If you ever want to know how a man truly feels about you, do absolutely nothing. Then you'll have your answer."
"There are three reasons I failed. Not enough training. Not enough training. And not enough training."
"Aomame raised her glass to the moon and asked, "Have you gone to bed with someone in your arms lately? The moon did not answer. "Do you have any friends? she asked. The moon did not answer. "Don't you get tired of always playing it cool? The moon did not answer."
"Centuries of social conditioning has created a generational fear among women of being perceived as masculine.This is where all the shaming and labels come into play, which perpetuate the oppression of girls and women. As a society we shame girls with deep voices or masculine features and we shame boys with soft voices or effeminate gestures. Girls get called 'too manly' and boys get called 'too girly'. The only solution I can think of is to be unashamedly 'you'. If that means challenging stereotypes and gender norms, go right ahead!"
"What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do."
"To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give."
"The whole universe is like some big FedEx box."
"I don't know anyone who would be exclusively working on game music, per se."
"And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about."
"What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus."
"I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward."
"You are never alone as long as you are in the company of your precious self."
"Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone."
"It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished."
"Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit."
"Threatening a current or former partner isn't passion, or love, or heartache. It's violence, it's abuse and it's a crime."
"You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can't erase the history that produced them."
"All you have to do is wait. Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone's always too busy. They're too talented, their schedules are too full. They're too interested in themselves to think about what's fair."
"It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.''And those troubling things are all you /can/ think about when you're one of the few.''That's about the size of it,' she said mournfully. 'But maybe, if you're in a situation like that, you learn to think for yourself.''Yes, but maybe what you end up thinking for yourself /about/ is all those troubling things."
"Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away."
"When you notice yourself desperately trying to think of an excuse to avoid a new experience out of FEAR, ANXIETY or INSECURITY, make the decision to say: 'sure, I'll do it' , and see how your life improves."
"Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route."
"I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely."
"You need to be your own cheer squad not your own worst enemy."
"We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online."
"Even if we have ourselves so fully convinced that we are on the right track because we desperately want to believe that the specific direction we have chosen is the 'correct one', if the universe disagrees with our choices, it will not be shy in telling us so."
"I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke from the mouth of a gun."
"The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding as absurd and not worth thinking about. I myself can only wish that my stories were, indeed, nothing but incredible fabrications. I have stayed alive all these years clinging to the frail hope that these memories of mine were nothing but a dream or a delusion. I have struggled to convince myself that they never happened. But each time I tried to push them into the dark, they came back stronger and more vivid than ever. Like cancer cells, these memories have taken root in my mind and eaten into my flesh."
"We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it's gone forever."
"Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all there was to her, she wouldn't have bothered anyone, but as is so often the case with such women, she suffered from an incurable case of of pretentiousness. Lacking any internalized values of her own, such people can arrive at a standpoint only by adopting other people's standards or views. The only principle that governs their minds is the question "How do I look?"
"Your past history is NOT an excuse."
"There is a need for promoting women's sexual agency in today's society, because if it wasn't an issue, terms such as 'female sexual empowerment' would be made redundant. The fact that we merely have this vocabulary is indicative of that."
"I think you still love me, but we can't escape the fact that I'm not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I'm not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I'm not angry, either. I should be, but I'm not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong."
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