Kenzaburo Oe Quotes

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 trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.

Kenzaburo Oe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MountainNightReadingTreesForest

There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.

Jeremy Lin

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Trade and investment have come to be the foundation, the ballast, of the U.S.-China relationship, providing great stability.

Max Baucus

RelationshipGreatFoundationTrade

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

Toyo Ito

ArchitectureLanguageUnderstandNeed

I'm an efficient striker, but I'm not a joker.

Michy Batshuayi

JokerEfficient

I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up.

Lucy Powell

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Any narrative, whether it's fiction or not, you have to approach it as though it really happened to you. I think that's the only way to get inside the characters and make the narrative work. It's a storytelling tradition, and I think to come off as genuine then you have to really approach it that way.

Jason Isbell

WorkThinkTraditionYouGenuine

In the first century A.D., members of the growing Church in Corinth were enthusiastic about the gospel. Almost all were recent converts to the Church. Many were attracted to it through the preaching of the Apostle Paul and others.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

ChurchGrowingOthersFirstThrough

The purity of finding the right artist, that artist that's gonna be the next hall of famer, that artist that's gonna be the next headliner, lifting people out of their seats at Madison Square Garden, that song that's gonna be sung for hundreds and hundreds of years, that essence remains the same.

Clive Davis

PeopleSongFindingArtistGarden

It's just an amazing feeling to know that I'm representing for every plus-size woman out there.

Ashley Nell Tipton

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Movement inspires a lot in me.

Payal Kadakia

MeMovementLotInspires

I'm not a machine. I get really motivated, then I fall off the wagon and want to eat Chinese food and sit on my couch and gain five or 10 pounds!

Shemar Moore

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For storytellers, financiers make ideal rogues. The easiest way to make characters unappealing is to make them rich - shorthand for spoiled, picky, superior, and cold-hearted.

Lionel Shriver

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