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Kenzaburo Oe

"I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son A Personal Matter, I believe I knew the most important thing: there is not any personal matter; we must find the link between ourselves, our personal matter, and society."

Source : "Art and Healing: Conversation with Kenzaburo Oe". Interview with Harry Kreisler, "Conversations with History" series of the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, www.youtube.com. April 16, 1999.

Kenzaburo Oe

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“My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.”
“Do lifelong artists pay a price for having chosen to make art? Of course. Everyone pays the price for his or her choices.”
“The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world.”
“Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. All gone, except they recycled it and we'll be drinking Bonzo's blood water in the morning. All the life gone out of it, but his blood just the same, his blood and my sweat, washed down in their stupidity or cruelty or whatever it was that made them let it happen.”
“Love' is finding the familiar dear. / 'In love' is to be taken by surprise.”

Source : Mona Van Duyn (2008). “Selected Poems”, p.189, Knopf
“Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do they take up arms against the industries which encourage it. Parents hide their eyes from the books and comics, slasher films, videos and lyrics which form the texture of an adolescent culture. While all successful societies have inhibited instinct, ours encourages it. Or at least we profess ourselves powerless to interfere with it.”
“Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us.”

Source : "Perk Up Your Profits: A Proven 4-Step System To Stimulate Revenues While Rewarding Your People". Book by Mohamed Tohami, September 21, 2013.
“I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.”

"I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son A Personal Matter, I believe I knew the most important thing: there is not any personal matter; we must find the link between ourselves, our personal matter, and society."

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