Yasunari Kawabata Quotes
The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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Religion is induced insanity.
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
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I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
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If you make a fashion mistake, that's one that's going to resonate for a very long time.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from 'Saturday Night Fever,' and you're up there like a demon.
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It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance.
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Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me.
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The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.
