"However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world."

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Source : Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1994.

Kenzaburo Oe

#Writing Quotes #Style Quotes #Fundamentals Quotes

“The number of those who have to be assimilated to the majority is not too high. It remains small compared with the numbers of the majority. But there is one thing - and that is the main reason for this digression - that French and British have in common: to this day they have an immense pride in being French, in being British. The fact that in the meantime both have come down to earth a little has not yet affected their pride in their own nationality and the fact that, if I may express it that way, they are mutual admiration societies: how fine the British are, how fine the French are.”

Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu
“True courage is the willingness to fully experience whatever you are feeling at the moment. You can attempt to run from your emotions, but eventually they will catch up with you. They will chase you, haunt you, until finally you give up the chase.”
“Each person has their own brand and style and the way they do things.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.”
“Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using ***** because the owners lost total control of the ***** use.”

Source : "Canseco: No Qualms About Using Steroids". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2005.
“Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events.”
“It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.”
“Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.”

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