“But for someone like me, who moved into an entirely different world when still quite young, it’s as if a deep gap divides my past and my present.”
― quote from A True Novel
“Time flew over me, its black wings spread.”
― quote from A True Novel
“I believe that a girl begins life as a doll her mother can dress up as she pleases, a mirror where her mother's fancies are reflected; but as she grows older, her own nature begins to show.”
― quote from A True Novel
“She's still quite fit at ninety, fit enough to chew her food with her own teeth. Apparently she grew up in a house without a bar of soap, let alone tooth powder. Her family didn't have electricity until she started elementary school, and she'd never seen a train until the tracks of the Koumi line were laid in Saku. It's exactly as if she were born in the Edo period. These days, you only have to drive for five minutes to find a sparkling clean convenience store, with bright lights above shelves stocked with everything you could possibly need. Land that used to be fields of mulberry bushes is now crisscrossed by smooth, wide roads lined with video rental stores and fast food restaurants.
I would say O-Hatsu has seen more changes in her lifetime than I have. After all, she lived for most of the century when this country was changing faster than it ever had before. Even so, I have a feeling that the inside of her head has remained much the same as when she was a girl. By "the inside of her head" I mean the way she sees the world around her—the language she uses to make sense of it. In my case, the very way I looked at the world and the words I used to understand it had altogether changed.”
― quote from A True Novel
“IN MICHIGAN IT seemed as if spring would never come; then when it did, all too soon it was summer. One day I realized the cold was loosening its grip, and then overnight, the weather turned hot, with the sun whitening the concrete streets. As if to reward themselves for having endured such a long, harsh winter, everyone walked around wearing as little as they could get away with.”
― quote from A True Novel
“Privately, I felt that living in that privileged environment, where her emotions ran unchecked, had made her oversensitive and unstable.”
― quote from A True Novel
“They had to pass the eel-jelly stand to get there—but that still did not put the women off. Watching Londoners slurp down with real relish something that looked like it had been sneezed out of their noses was another oddness that Eliza had not quite gotten used to. The smell alone convinced her that everyone in line was completely mad. “And”
― quote from The Janus Affair
“أنت ترى، لم أكن قادراً على قول شيء جديد، لكني ما زلت قد نجحت في أن أقول شيئاً! لم أعد أهتم إذا ما كان جديداً أم لا، على النقيض مما يعتقده المدَعون الحمقى، فمن الأفضل أن أقول عدة كلمات على أن أبقى ساكتاَ ، ما فائدة أن تبقى أفواهنا مغلقة بحق السماء ؟
لماذا نشاهد الحياة بسلبيه وهي تطعن أجسادنا وأرواحنا مثل قطار قاسٍ يتقدم ببطء إلى واجهته ؟
عرفت رجلاً كان في نفس عمري لمَح إلي أن الصمت أفضل من المحاربه ضد قوى الشر التي تتربص بنا وتدمرنا ; أقول أنه لمح لأنه لم يصرح بذلك قط، كان جالساً على مكتب مثل صبي مطيع، وظل يكتب في كراسة من الصباح وحتى الليل كلمات شخص آخر في صمت، أحياناًأتخيل أنه لم يمت وما زال يكتب، أخاف من أن صمته قد يمتد بداخلي في شكل رعب فظيع .”
― Orhan Pamuk, quote from The New Life
“You have the courage and will to overcome your fear and do what's required.”
― Henry H. Neff, quote from The Maelstrom
“In fact, I do not believe there is an honest man alive without some pretension,”
― Giacomo Casanova, quote from The Story of My Life
“If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.”
― Carter G. Woodson, quote from The Mis-Education of the Negro
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