"Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work."

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Source : "A Personal Matter". Book by by Kenzaburo Oe, 1964.

Kenzaburo Oe

#Understanding Quotes #Lifestyle Quotes #Phony Quotes

“I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.”
“I've lost tremendous amounts of money in various markets and I think that that's something that makes you better at my job, not worse.”
“A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.”
“I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“Now with the allocation and the understanding of the lack of understanding, we enter into a new era of science in which we feel nothing more than so much so as to say that those within themselves, comporary or non-comporary, will figuratively figure into the folding of our non-understanding and our partial understanding to the networks of which we all draw our source and conclusions from.”
“I miss you already I donâ€™t need to leave. I can stay. . . . Mmmm.”
“It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality.”
“I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.”

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