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Kenzaburo Oe Quotes

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The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution  (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 Quotes) Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present - day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) I don’t think young people need to see the face of the deceased  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) 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 Quotes) I have a habit to be reborn as a writer. So if I find myself in a crisis that I have never experienced, I can be born, or I can write something, by the power of the habit. Even a soldier or a farmer or a fisherman can be reborn by the power of the habit when he meets the greatest crisis of his life  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) He said he didn’t care if he went to heaven or hell, because neither could be more fearful than absolute nothingness; salvation and damnation were one and the same if the only thing out there was total nothingness  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) To talk of prayer after admitting he professed no faith was, in my opinion, a breach of common courtesy. In this sense, he did make a social blunder, for which I think he well deserved some minor castigation  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) There’s no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is present from the first draft of a manuscript. When he or she elaborates on the initial manuscript, it continues to strengthen and simplify that natural, deep voice  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes) To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man  (Kenzaburo Oe Quotes)
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