"The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic."

-- Kenzaburo Oe

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“It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the million that they don't have to make their film.”
“Our galaxy is 10 billion years old. The Earth is only 4.5 billion years old. We are a firefly flicker in the great astrobiology of the galaxy.”

Source : "Hunting for the Great Galactic Internet". Interview with Slate, www.slate.com. April 8, 2012.
“Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.”
“That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.”

Source : Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.79, Penguin
“The only thing they [government] want is better data. But data doesn't tell people someone is well educated. It's a vicious circle. There is some myth involved. Some of this attitude has a long history.”
“Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.”

Source : "Why books are small but dangerous" by Nicky Parker, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2015.
“You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.”

Source : Barry Hannah (2007). “Yonder Stands Your Orphan”, p.29, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.”

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