Yasunari Kawabata Quotes

A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn.

Yasunari Kawabata

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• 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.

  

  Edmund White
  • Beginning
  • Solitude
  • Limit

• When I was growing up, in the '80s and '90s, I just never really saw myself reflected in the things that I had a liking for. It makes a difference.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Myself

• No person, not even the most simple one, takes seriously the lie of the six million Jews that were murdered in the Holocaust.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Simple
  • Holocaust

• Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Real
  • Why
  • Simplicity

• Vorpal had the trick of adding a Malay enclitic to his utterances. This also had power to irritate, especially in the mornings. It irritated Nabby Adams that this should irritate him, but somewhere at the back of his brain was the contempt of the man learned in languages for the silly show-off, jingling the small change of ‘wallah’ and charpoy...

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Power
  • Small
  • Brain

• Harriet: making an excuse Um... I'm looking for a copy of The Wheat-Free Guide to Creative Visualization in Co-dependent Past-Life Relationships.Mo: Huh. Jeez, I never heard of that one... Wonder if it's in spirituality or cooking.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Life
  • Free
  • Past

• 'I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken.' I should like to have that written over the portals of every church, every school, and every courthouse, and, may I say, of every legislative body in the United States. I should like to have every court begin, 'I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that we may be mistaken.'

  

  Learned Hand
  • School
  • May
  • Church

• I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.

  

  David Byrne Talking Heads
  • Home
  • American

• Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.

  

  Protagoras
  • Truth
  • Together

• The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.

  

  Philip Yancey
  • Good

• I don't know that the referee can be watching holding on the offensive line and get back to the quarterback. I think watching the quarterback is a full-time job.

  

  John Madden
  • Time
  • Job

• His plan? To pass out weapons to slaves, so they could overthrow their masters. Suicide.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Suicide

• … the point is, why is there cruelty? Why do people ask other people to do impossible things? why behave this way? why is there mean, when there are better things than mean, love particularly?

  

  Daniel Handler
  • People
  • Why

• I think there comes a point where you have to grow up and get over yourself, lighten up...and forgive.

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • Up

• Let not another's disobedience to Nature become an ill to you; for you were not born to be depressed and unhappy with others, but to be happy with them. And if any is unhappy, remember that he is so for himself; for God made all men to enjoy felicity and peace.

  

  Epictetus
  • God
  • Men
  • Remember

• How do you make RoboCop? How do you slowly bring a guy to be a robot? How do you actually take humanity out of someone and how do you program a brain, so to speak, and how does that affect an individual?

  

  Jose Padilha
  • Guy
  • Brain
  • Humanity

• There's more power in being Oprah Winfrey than in being Barack Obama.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Power
  • Barack

• The theory for admitting accomplice testimony that is uncorroborated is that conspiracy is by its nature secretive and that only the parties to it can know it occurred. But in practice this means the accomplice's guilt is modified to the degree that he can convict the defendant.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Nature
  • Practice

• I felt a little nervous. I know I pitched well, but I can't be happy because the team lost.

  

  Felix Hernandez
  • Team
  • Lost
  • Nervous

• The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong; All seasons sweet, but autumn best of all. The squirrels in their silver fur will fall Like falling leaves, like fruit, before your shot.

  

  Elinor Wylie
  • Long
  • Fall
  • Sweet

• I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Up
  • School
  • Happy

• We are now living in an age of literary exhaustion; we get used to the bleak landscape. Cyril Connolly said that the writer's business is to produce masterpieces; but what masterpieces have been produced in the past fifty years?

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Business
  • Age
  • Past

• A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn.

  

  Yasunari Kawabata
  • Autumn