"Was that what it means to be an……" — Banana Yoshimoto
"Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?"
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87 Quotes by Banana Yoshimoto
Banana Yoshimoto has 87 quotes on this site.
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Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind.
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Of course, it’s true that sometimes the pink at sunrise somehow seems brighter than the pink at sunset, and that…
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It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop…
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Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
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Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a chlld then,so I have…
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Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be…
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I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn't have enough energy to do anything else.
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Ultimately, though, it's living people that frighten me the most. It's always seemed to me that nothing could be scarier…
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Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at…
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Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And…
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Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief.…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
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I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I…
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard…
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When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably…
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids…
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
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