Banana Yoshimoto Quotes

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• Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.

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  Rocks, Feet, Suffering

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.42, Grove Press

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• I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.

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  People, Feelings, Love Feeling

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.55, Melville House

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• The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.

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  Beautiful, Heart, Sky

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.81, Melville House

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• When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

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  Lonely, Dark, Light

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.21, Grove Press

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• Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.

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  Memories, Shining, Happy Memories

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.100, Grove Press

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• It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or stay silent. You never get tired of watching it. And no matter how rough the waves get, you’re never bothered by the noise the water makes by the commotion of the surface - it never seems too loud, or too wild.

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  Ocean, Tired, Caring

  Banana Yoshimoto (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.22, Grove Press

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• What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.

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  Sky, Important, Together

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• If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.

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  Lying, Thinking, Needs

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.128, Melville House

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• No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.

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  Travel, Inspire, Matter

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.51, Grove Press

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• Over and over, we begin again.

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  Bare Trees, Begin Again

  Banana Yoshimoto (1993). “Kitchen”

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• Love is the kind of thing that's already happening by the time you notice it, that's how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn't change. Except that you can break it up into two entirely distinct types -- love where there's an end in sight and love where there isn't.

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  Love, Sight, Two

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.109, Grove Press

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• But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.

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  Guilt, Twisted, Uncertain

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.182, Melville House

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• When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.

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  Comfort

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.8, Melville House

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• Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind.

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  Tea, Mind, Enough

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.88, Melville House

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• I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.

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  Feelings, Important, Proud

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.183, Melville House

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• Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you.

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  Real, Levels, Limits

  Banana Yoshimoto, Russell F. Wasden (1998). “Amrita”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing itself again and again from one instant to the next-and I didn’t want to forget a single one.

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  Goodbye, Farewell, Sky

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.111, Grove Press

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• The night glittered brilliantly then.

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  Night

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2001). “Asleep”, p.38, Grove Press

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• it'll be this kind of deep blue”she said. “The kind of color that somehow sucks your eyes and your ears and all your words —the color of a completely closed-in night

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  Eye, Night, Blue

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2001). “Asleep”, p.64, Grove Press

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• It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.

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  Sadness, Gorgeous, Felt

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.131, Melville House

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• On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you open up your heart and just start talking to the person next to you—you talk as if you have no audience but the glittering stars, far overhead.

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  Stars, Heart, Night

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• Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves.

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  Nice, Heart, Self

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.39, Grove Press

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• From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to give up; I wanted to give up on living. There was no denying that tomorrow would come, and the day after tomorrow, and so next week, too. I never thought it would be this hard, but I would go on living in the midst of a glomy depression, and that made me feel sick to the depths of my soul. In spite of the tempest raging within me, I walked the night path calmly.

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  Giving Up, Heart, Night

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.48, Grove Press

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• People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.

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  People, Overcoming, Defeat

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