"I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society â€” with the cosmos. To link me with my family to the cosmos, that is easy, because all literature has some mystic tendency. So when we write about our family, we can link ourselves to the cosmos."

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Source : "Conversation with Kenzaburo Oe" by Harry Kreisler, "Conversations with History", Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, globetrotter.berkeley.edu. April 16, 1999.

Kenzaburo Oe

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Cosmos Quotes

“I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even to the very forms of monarchy, and many of its precepts have for their objects republican liberty and equality as well as simplicity, integrity, and economy in government. It is only necessary for republicanism to ally itself to the Christian religion to overturn all the corrupted political and religious institutions of the world.”
“It does not matter what has been made of us; what matters is what we ourselves make of what has been made of us.”

Source : Jan Kott (2015). “Shakespeare, Our Contemporary”, p.90, Doubleday
“When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.”
“Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.”
“As soon as things become predictable, they become boring.”

Source : "Exclusive: Hunter Parrish Talks Weeds Season 7". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 27, 2011.
“For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write”
“Doesn't matter how menial may be the job that you're doing today. If you have dreams, that will turn into something positive in the future.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The half moon on the bank of the river's devotion. That's the stab wound, born from the killer emotion”

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