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> [“The books beside my bed are like the expensive, and suspiciously unsullied, pair of running shoes in the cupboard: an aspiration, and a symbol of the man I would like to be rather than the one I truly am.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lloyd-parry/the-books-beside-my-bed-are-like-the-expensive-and-suspiciously/)

[Richard Lloyd Parry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lloyd-parry/)

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## More by Richard Lloyd Parry

> [“Tapi, Indonesia menyimpan terlalu banyak rahasia. Dan keanekaragamannya pun amat kelewatan...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lloyd-parry/tapi-indonesia-menyimpan-terlalu-banyak-rahasia-dan-keanekaragamannya/)

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> [“Sebagai republik yang merdeka, Indonesia berusia lima puluh tahun, tetapi kedengaran lebih mirip sebuah kekaisaran tak terkendali daripada sebuah negara bangsa modern.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lloyd-parry/sebagai-republik-yang-merdeka-indonesia-berusia-lima-puluh-tahun/)

[Richard Lloyd Parry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lloyd-parry/)

> [“I asked him what kind of consolation a priest could offer to people such as the parents of Okawa school, and he was quiet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lloyd-parry/i-asked-him-what-kind-of-consolation-a-priest-could-offer-to-people/)

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> [“Kaneta said, “What determined life or death? No Buddhist priest knows, no Christian pastor—not even the Pope in Rome. So I would say, ‘There’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lloyd-parry/kaneta-said-what-determined-life-or-death-no-buddhist-priest-knows-no/)

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> [“The universe wraps everything up inside it, in the end,” Kaneta said. “Life, death, grief, anger, sorrow, joy. There was no boundary, then, between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lloyd-parry/the-universe-wraps-everything-up-inside-it-in-the-end-kaneta-said/)

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> [“The earthquake is the thing that all humans face: the banal inevitability of death. We don’t know when it will come, but we know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lloyd-parry/the-earthquake-is-the-thing-that-all-humans-face-the-banal/)

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> [“The moment you will be most stiff is when you die - you never get stiffer than that. So you've got to sleep well,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lloyd-parry/the-moment-you-will-be-most-stiff-is-when-you-die-you-never-get/)

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> [“The families of the missing are doubly burdened: first by the pain of their ordeal, and then by our expectations of them, expectations of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lloyd-parry/the-families-of-the-missing-are-doubly-burdened-first-by-the-pain-of/)

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> [“The books beside my bed are like the expensive, and suspiciously unsullied, pair of running shoes in the cupboard: an aspiration, and a symbol…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lloyd-parry/the-books-beside-my-bed-are-like-the-expensive-and-suspiciously/)

[Richard Lloyd Parry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lloyd-parry/)

> [“He said, “We realized that, for all that we had learned about religious ritual and language, none of it was effective in facing what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lloyd-parry/he-said-we-realized-that-for-all-that-we-had-learned-about-religious/)

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> [“The most important thing of all is to stay supple and flexible,” he said. “The moment you will be most stiff is when you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lloyd-parry/the-most-important-thing-of-all-is-to-stay-supple-and-flexible-he/)

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