Yasunari Kawabata Quotes
Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.
Quotes to Explore
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.
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The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
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If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.
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I just bought a house myself and went through some issues. I thought this would be educational.
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The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.
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Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.
