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If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.
— Kenzaburo Oe
You can't make a writer without first making a reader, and that's what my mother made me.
— Richard Russo
It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.
— Kenzaburo Oe
There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.
— Kenzaburo Oe
It's a little bit like what Akari said to his grandmother in Shikoku, during her final illness: 'Please cheer up and die!
— Kenzaburo Oe
To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.
— Kenzaburo Oe
If you care about the people you work with then you work harder
— Kristine Lilly
In silence, Bird reflected sadly on his wife's misconception of the nature of Swahili.
— Kenzaburo Oe
He has a heart so huge, it's kept pumping, kept going long past endurance - even though life has bruised it to a pulp.
— Nalini Singh
If I'm a monster then I want to be a real monster. I'll become a monster and explode.
— Kenzaburo Oe
The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia.
— Kenzaburo Oe
The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.
— Kenzaburo Oe
The fear of blindness created a moment's vacuum, serving as a relaxant for my exhausted and overheated brain.
— Kenzaburo Oe
The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
— Kenzaburo Oe
Most people want to feel a part of the experience,
— John C. Maxwell
I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.
— Michel Faber
