Kenzaburo Oe Quotes

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 it up with society, the state and the world.

Kenzaburo Oe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: japanese
  • Birth: January 31, 1935

Topics

StyleMeWritingWorldStartSay

I'm very proud of 'Platoon,' but at the end of it I was done. I was done.

John C. McGinley

ProudEndDoneVeryPlatoon

I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only vaguely realized that science was a little more than natural history, but by then I was hooked.

Matt Ridley

ScienceHistoryTimeYouthOutdoors

A slighted woman knows no bounds.

John Vanbrugh

WomanKnowsBoundsSlighted

There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever.

Stanley A. McChrystal

IdentityArmyYouGoneServeOnly

We will work toward maintaining the status quo for peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait in order to bring the greatest benefits and well-being to the Taiwanese people.

Tsai Ing-wen

WorkPeacePeopleWell-BeingWill

When these suckers had formed roots in the open ground, or kind of nursery where they were planted, they were looked over and the best taken up for potting.

Robert Fortune

BestRootsKindOverOpenGround

Space is going to be commonplace.

Christa McAuliffe

SpaceGoingCommonplace

When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind.

Shane Smith

LiveBeautifulYouFastWantLeave

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

Mark Zuckerberg

TodayWorldBuildingConnectionsYou

The horse is my favorite animal.

Linda Johnson Rice

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Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

Janet Frame

ImaginationWritingShoppingBorder

I think the world of Dave Griffin. I worked with him in Phoenix, got to know him very well, and consider him a friend.

Grant Hill

FriendWorldThinkKnowHimPhoenix

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