"Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water."

-- Banana Yoshimoto

#Loneliness Quotes #Nice Quotes #Water Quotes

“Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.”
“I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.”
“I don't need to feel 100% safe, but I have to feel like there's room for me to go a little bit insane if I'm going to have good ideas. Because a good idea is a new idea and if you start going around like, "I have this new idea!" most people are gonna be like, "I've never heard that before, that sounds fishy."”
“The task of the intellectual is not one of blending into the opaque consciousness of the tumultuous mob around him, his voice drowned in a cacophony of misdirected protests. His task is to remind them of who they are and what they ought to be. Our values are not to be taken from conduct of our adversaries but from the great heritage of our people.”
“Koschei, Koschei,â€ she whispered. â€œWhat would I have been if I had never seen the birds? I am no one; I am nothing. I am a blank paper on which you and your magic wrote a girl. Just the kind of girl you wanted, all hungry and hurt and needing. A machine for loving you. Nothing in me was not made by you.”
“There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.”
“Whoever wants to understand much must play much.”
“I believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is, most folk really don't have choices.”

You may also like:

Haruki Murakami
Writer
Junichiro Tanizaki
Author
Kenzaburo Oe
Author
Kobo Abe
Writer
Natsuo Kirino
Novelist
Soseki Natsume
Novelist
Yasunari Kawabata
Writer
Yoko Ogawa
Writer
Yukio Mishima
Author