227 Quotes by Ruth Ozeki

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    Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it’s often largely imaginary – or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.

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    Premonitions are coincidences waiting to happen.

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    But shame is not a pleasant feeling, and some Japanese politicians are always trying to change our children’s history textbooks so that these genocides and tortures are not taught to the next generation. By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.

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    The cat still seemed to be somewhat there with him, but only as an absence, a cat-shaped hole.

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    Do you have a cat and is she sitting on your lap? Does her forehead smell like cedar trees and fresh sweet air?

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    I was deep inside my mind, which is where I go when things get too intense.

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    I would like to think of my ‘ignorance’ less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If we can’t act on knowledge, then we can’t survive without ignorance.

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    I’m reaching through time to touch you... you’re reaching back to touch me.

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    Drawing my thoughts out of my mind and holding me down to earth at the same time.

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