Yukio Mishima Quotes
All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.
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The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
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I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
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It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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Only votes talk, everything else walks.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and sees himself in the face of the boy. He imagines what the boy sees when he looks at him and finds himself becoming his own father. Inexplicably, he is moved by this. It is not just the sight of the boy that moves him, not even the thought of standing inside his father, but what he sees in the boy of his own vanished past. It is a nostalgia for his own life that he feels, perhaps, a memory of his own boyhood as a son to his father.
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Lies sleep in minds. Truths sleep in souls.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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Whaling was the oil business of its day.
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My profile is bigger in Europe than it is in the U.K.
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All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.
