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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The night glittered brilliantly then.

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  Night

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

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• Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, fighting to bridge those gaps isn't what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are.

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  Fighting, Differences, Bridges

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.127, Melville House

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• It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I'm sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.

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  Ordinary Days, Long, Missing

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.31, Melville House

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• That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done

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  Good Night, Insomnia, Long

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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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• The way we think may be completely different, but you and I are an ancient, archetypal couple, the original man and woman. We are the model for Adam and Eve. For all couples in love, there comes a moment when a man gazes at a woman with the very same kind of realization. It is an infinite helix, the dance of two souls resonating, like the twist of DNA, like the vast universe.

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  Couple, Men, Thinking

  Banana Yoshimoto, Ann Sherif (1996). “Lizard”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Time expands and contracts. When it expands, it’s like pitch: it folds people in its arms and holds them forever in its embrace. It doesn’t let us go so easily. Sometimes you go back again to the place you’ve just come from, stop and close your eyes, and realize that not a second has passed, and time just leaves you there, stranded, in the darkness

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  Eye, People, Forever

  Banana Yoshimoto (2006). “Hardboiled: & Hard Luck”, p.24, 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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• Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.

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  Beautiful, Crazy, Enough

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• The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)” (p. 3).

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  Light, Broken, Kitchen

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.3, Grove Press

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• This is what it means to be loved... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.

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  Mean, Want

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.20, Melville House

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• Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top.

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  Mean, Fate, Missing

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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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• Over and over, we begin again.

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  Bare Trees, Begin Again

  Banana Yoshimoto (1993). “Kitchen”

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