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Kenzaburo Oe Quotes

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 the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.

Kenzaburo Oe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I Am World Wish Literature Create

I'm from a small town on the bottom edge of Mississippi, very near New Orleans and the Louisiana border. My family has lived there for generations.

Jesmyn Ward

Family Small Border Small Town Edge

I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents insisting that dear Octavia has a reading age of 28. I remember trying to read 'In Cold Blood' at the age of twelve, and realising that just because you can read book doesn't mean you should.

Meg Rosoff

Age Parents Book Cold Reading Hands

The themes in WordPress drive a lot of design trends. It democratizes design... You make a theme, and suddenly it's on hundreds and thousands of sites.

Matt Mullenweg

Drive Design You Trends Theme Make

I was prom king. Which is actually saying I was the sixth most popular, because the five who were on homecoming were automatically disqualified from prom, so of course I have to look at it that way.

Andy Richter

King Saying Look Way Prom Because

Growing up, I'd watch 'Rambo' or 'Commando,' and so many action heroes were these huge guys with six-pack abs. It almost became a novelty.

Lucas Till

Growing Up Action Growing Heroes Up

While cyber espionage is having a tremendous negative affect on the global economy from the theft-caused drain of intellectual property and the resulting adverse incentives for continued investments in innovative growth, the threat from destructive and disruptive attacks is amplifying the risks even further.

Dmitri Alperovitch

Growth Risks Negative Intellectual

It's tough when you get beat. You have to be able to come back mentally. Sometimes the offense is going to win, but you have to be able to be level-headed and not get too upset when they do catch the ball.

Chris Harris, Jr.

Win Tough You Back Sometimes Upset

I would not rule out a musical. What I will categorically say is that I will not be in a 'Peaky Blinders' musical.

Cillian Murphy

Say Will Out Rule Blinders Would

It's not about me. It's about the Steelers.

Antonio Brown

Me About

I've tried to keep myself out of bad situations, and if that means I'm a Goody Two-shoes, so be it.

Peyton Manning

Myself Bad Out Keep Means Tried

I'm not just muscles and headlocks. I need to prove to people that there is an elegant woman in here.

Nikki Bella

Woman People Prove Need Elegant

I have studied religion, and I have concluded that there is some power. We don't understand it.

Kirk Douglas

Power Religion Understand Some