"I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die."

--

Source : Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Beauty and Sadness”, p.114, Vintage

Yasunari Kawabata

#Retirement Quotes #Writing Quotes #Age Quotes

“What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music?”
“Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?”
“I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.”
“Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put fossils into the rocks in order to mislead Darwin about the evolution of life.”
“I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.”
“I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.”
“You know, I feel that God isn't going to put something in front of me that I can't deal with.”
“Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.”

You may also like: