Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. They were concerned to salvage their own lives, but in the process they also salvaged the souls of the people who have brought the atomic bomb.

Kenzaburo Oe's Popular Quotes

The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.

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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 kn…

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To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.

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After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.

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It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.

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There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.

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I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of th…

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Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.

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The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.

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