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“Those who live only in the universal temporality can make their voices heard by the world. Those who simultaneously live in the universal and particular temporalities may hear voices from the other...”
“Finally, I would like to point out that now in the age of English, choosing a language policy is not the exclusive concern of non-English-speaking nations. It is also a concern for English-speaking...”
“And yet, as you all know, joining humanity is never a simple matter. By beginning to live the same temporality as Westerners, the Japanese now had to live two temporalities simultaneously. On the o...”
“Life is a tiring business indeed.Soy sauce runs out. Milk runs out. Dishwashing detergent runs out. Lancme lipsticksI thought I had stockpiled several years' worthrun out. Dust underneath the dinin...”
“You are everything I have in this world Gracie”
“The fact of English supremacy is something most native speakers of English unknowingly suppress, all the while enjoying the privileges that come with it. Many non-English-speaking populations, howe...”
“Here was a king who saw his subjects as peers and allies around whom he had growing up rather than semi-alien entities to be suspected and persecuted.”
“You must confront your past. At some time or other you must confront your past. It doesn't flash before your eyes, I knew that, but it's always there. We are our past. There is nothing else, and no...”
“waging war against inane language that circulates almost automatically is a writer's eternal mission, and the day will never come when this battles are unnecessary.”
“Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.”
“I never truly believed that human business was some serious thing.”
“If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.”
“I have to admit it humbly, mon cher compatriote, I was always bursting with vanity. I, I, I is the refrain of my whole life, which could be heard in everything I said. I could never talk without bo...”
“He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.”
“Transported to a different culture, thought often loses its subtlety and can even rampage like a wild beast.”
“Phonocentrism places higher value on spoken language as being more primary than and thus superior to written language, which it conceives as necessarily corrupting the original Subjectthe center of...”
“There are no such thing as ghosts. Joseph replied.There are supposedly no such things as Vampires and yet here you are. Grace quipped flippantly.”
“To admit what you see endangers principles.”
“Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to th...”
“I so want to believe him, but right now even his touch feels like a lie.”
