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Junichiro Tanizaki Quotes

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.

Junichiro Tanizaki

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: japanese
Birth: July 24, 1886 - July 30, 1965

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Beauty Light Darkness Find Shadows

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life Wisdom Freedom Alone Day Own

The Republican game is hilariously transparent: if Obama doesn't shift to more muscular postures, he's not a patriot. If he does, he's a flip-flopper.

Game Patriot More Republican Shift

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

Great Best Money Writing Think

I really admire the great Japanese artists who could change their name three times in a lifetime. You could get rid of one and renew yourself.

Change Great Yourself Name You

When they invented the Steadicam, every movie had to have a fight in a stairwell. Whenever there's a new thing, it's abused until artists realize what a Steadicam as a tool can be. And now I defy people to be able to see Steadicam shots, because we know how to do them and make them invisible.

Robert Zemeckis

Fight People New Know Now See

In their efforts to discredit human freedom, the Putinites denounce the sins that may occur under the reign of liberty with the same ardor, the same sincerity, and the same purpose that animated their Soviet forebears.

Freedom Purpose Liberty Sincerity

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

Think You Way Write Going Writer

I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day.

Day Flying Christmas Never Mean Did

I got to a stage where tennis was the only thing in my life, and I didn't like that.

Life My Life Tennis Stage Where Got

I am a deficit hawk.

I Am Hawk Am Deficit

The only person that is going to tell you that you can't do things in life are people who have failed.

Life People You Person Tell Going

At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.

Leadership Heart Great Curious Mind

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