Nagai Sōkichi (Kafu Nagai) Quotes
Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.
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If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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I have to have a cheat day. I know when I'm being good all week long that come Sunday, I'm going to lie by the pool, have a drink, and eat some pizza.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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Along with opportunities, there also exist many other tricky and complex issues to be managed in India. These include tackling both policy-level challenges and infrastructure challenges.
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Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that put America on the world stage for literature. It's almost as if, if you start reading that book as a racist, you cannot finish it and still be a racist.
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It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.
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There is always pressure playing cornerback. It's just a position where you're always in the spotlight.
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For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not - and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul.
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Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.
