All Kenzaburo Oe Quotes
- Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality… Century
- After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central… Article
- Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of… Asian
- However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link… Allow
- The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War. Bases
- There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written. Better
- In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this… Abroad
- In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and… Active
- As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society… Century
- 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… Aftermath
- Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is present from the… Author
- 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… Any
- To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man. Good
- I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society — with the cosmos. To link me with my family to… All
- The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow. Clown
- After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped. Born
- By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the… Able
- From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding… Another Point
- 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… Consumer
- I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel. Form