227 Quotes by Ruth Ozeki

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    Premonitions are coincidences waiting to happen,” he said, without looking up. “I.

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    If his medium had been words instead of war, he would have been a poet.

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    It takes a long time to write a book. I’m not going to spend that much time trying to deliver a message. The reason I do it is because I want to understand something myself. It’s not a delivery device, it’s an inquiry device. Didactic fiction to my mind never works. It backfires.

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    By entering the cave of mind and walking into fire. By making shadows bleed. You can feel life completely by taking it away.

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    No writer, even the most proficient, could re-enact in words the flow of a life lived.

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    In this root sense, ignorance is an act of will, a choice that one makes over and over again, especially when information overwhelms and knowledge has become synonymous with impotence.

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    So when we left the apartment, it was this doomed unreal feeling I remember more than anything else, like we were bad actors in terrible costumes in a play that was guaranteed to tank, but we had to go out on stage anyhow. The.

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    I’m sorry. I was just talking to the moon.

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    Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image – or images, I should say – because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.

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