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- If you miss the bus, miss the train, you’d be left behind. So everyone says, let’s get on the train, let’s get on the bus…
- I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at…
- Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those…
- I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
- I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.
- Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to…
- If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
- I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness I used to…
- Why?" she screamed. "Are you crazy? You know the English subjunctive, you understand trigonometry, you can read Marx, and you don't know the answer to…
- Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And,…
- What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell me you're wondering…
- Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I'd move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I'd meet Ingrid Bergman. Or…
- It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.
- I hate requests. They make me feel unhappy. It's like when I take a book out of the library. As soon as I start to…
- Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the…
- How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to read the whole…
- I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
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