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“From New Year's Eve through the third of January, the streets of Tokyo grew quiet, as if all the people had disappeared.”
“Tokyo is a very safe city. At night it becomes quiet the way New York never does.”
“The Professor noted two nymphs with strawberries on their heads, a DayGlo Amish lady, a mustachioed man in a rainbow apron. He wrote Saturday Night Fever, then crossed it out and wrote Drag Ball + ...”
“The first time Enokizu met me, the first words he said were: "You look like an ape."When someone is that outrageously rude, it's hard to be angry.”
“If we do not push ourselves enough, we do not grow, but if we push ourselves too much, we regress. What is enough will change, depending on where we are and what we are doing. In that sense, the pr...”
“When those who name dead people have gone, there just remains the calmness of foreign cemeteries, in which nothing appears familiar and nothing frightens you.”
“I am reminded of yet one more reason why I avoid children, why I have remained intentionally childless. Children make ruthless biographers and terrifying judges.”
“Once upon a time there was a girl named Debbie Jacobs and a boy named Teddy Dennis.”
“How does it feel to be helpless, Led?To depend on something that fails you?There's no more running from who you are; no one to hold you together anymore.You're alone now--The ghost of Tokyo has com...”
“Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped, inner city machiya.”
“Go ahead, kill me! But live with this: All those people die!For the rest of your life, somewhere behind the feeds, that human part of you hiding down deep will always wonder how much pain you could...”
“How do you survive the survivor?”
“It occurs to me that if I dont sort myself out soon I will die of meaninglessness. That is the price of avoiding the things I find troubling.”
“There are 3 reasons for why you can't beat me. First, I'm better looking than you are. Second, your blows are too light. And third, there's nothing in the world I can't tear up.”
“Fear is like a fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you. It can heat your house.If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. Fear is your friend and your wor...”
“The Zen Monk Ky Has Changed His Name to Muj Dry. I Wrote This Verse to Celebrate The Great Prospects That Lie Before HimUnwillingness to remain in the ruts of former Buddha patriarchs Unsurpassed a...”
“Always do at least one good deed a day for someone other then yourself.”
“What's wrong with wanting to live...? We may be different but we were still given life. Given a chance. If we can only eat humans, then that's what we'll do. How else are we supposed to live with t...”
“This world is wrong. We have to correct it.”
“Please... Don't make me a murderer.”
