"The thorn of death falls from heaven, and its myriad forms leave us no room to move."

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Source : Kobo Abe (2011). “The Woman in the Dunes”, p.138, Vintage

Kobo Abe

#Moving Quotes #Fall Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?”
“Simplify the task. Continually look for faster, better, easier ways to get the job done.”
“Two sons, they'll both be presidents after they win their Nobel Prizes. And the daughters, they'll be prima ballerinas before they become the president of Princeton and start their Internet company. And I just started to think about What's the conventional load of those expectations you carry around? You have to pull them out one by one and smash them in the corner. You realize the pile is quite high. But in a way, it becomes oddly liberating to do that.”
“When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.”
“One of the things we've lost as blacks in the United States is imagining different ways the world could be organized, how this country could be organized, how politics could be organized.”
“We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.”
“U.S. foreign policy is akin to government-sponsored terrorism these day. It was not a mistake that there was a huge security stand down on September 11 last year. I am SOLO. I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels.”
“Social Security is a solemn promise to kupuna like my 88-year-old mother that they can rely on the retirement they've earned. While I'm glad to see our seniors receive an increase for the second year in a row, I wish the cost-of-living adjustment could be larger. However, every little bit helps make a difference in these tough economic times.”

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