"Nothing exists in this world but me and my bedâ€¦â€ (p. 141)."

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Banana Yoshimoto

#Bed Quotes #World Quotes #This World Quotes

“It's easy to see things you're lookin' for. The trick is to see things you're not looking for.”
“You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer.”
“Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.”
“I may … surprise you - but I shall not deceive you.”
“A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time. I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Thou art to me a delicious torment.”
“I don't know what's wrong with me. When I was a girl they had this aviary in one of my foster homes and I'd go in when no one was looking and put out watermelon rinds to feed the flies. There were all these flies that would have starved if I hadn't, and I'm not even wild about flies. They say it makes you a gentler person if you don't eat meat. But wasn't Hitler a vegetarian?”
“People don't think that bread is part of Asian culture or Asian food culture, but it's quite prevalent in Northern China, and you see it throughout Japan and as you go to Taiwan.”

Source : "David Chang's Pork Buns: An Unexpected Hit". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. November 3, 2009.

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