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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• Over and over, we begin again.

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  Bare Trees, Begin Again

  Banana Yoshimoto (1993). “Kitchen”

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

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  People, Overcoming, Defeat

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

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  Failing, Someday, Disappear

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.21, 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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• 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 ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.

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  Body, Daily Life, Ritual

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2006). “Hardboiled: & Hard Luck”, p.41, Grove Press

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• I really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat them - they change their colors.

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  Believe, Color, People

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2001). “Asleep”, p.91, 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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• People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they meet. You spend a little while talking and everyone starts to feel this conviction, you're all equally sure that you're at the beginning of something good. That's how it is when you meet people you're going to be with for a long time.

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  Talking, Long, People

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.80, Grove Press

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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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• No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even though they may have still been in the womb, blind, and unable to speak. That's why, as adults, we all look for someone to become our parents again, and for someone to look after us in times of need. And we search for a person to live with who can provide the companionship we so desperately want.

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  Childhood, Parent, Adults

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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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• Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.

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  Heart, Light, People

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.55, 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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