Quotes by Kyoko Yoshida

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“No, I am not imagining a book-burning, warmongering, anti-intellectual fascist regime in my plan, there is no place for re ghters who light up the Homers and Lady Murasakis and Cao Xueqins stashed...”
— Kyoko Yoshida
asia ban book-burning books

“We do not know if she collapsed because of overwhelming joy, extreme surprise, grave disappointment, or heavy anxiety that for the next months and years she would live with a human male, because in...”
— Kyoko Yoshida
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“If rewriting equals rereading, we must logically conclude that writing is reading. If this is indeed the case, how could we possibly write under a ban on reading? The only way left is mouth-to-mout...”
— Kyoko Yoshida
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