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“In this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“Jiji: [after hearing that Kiki plans on leaving town for her witch training] I'm going to put my paws together and pray that you're not serious!”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“You see, whether you can draw like this or not, being able to think up this kind of design, it depends on whether or not you can say to yourself, "Oh, yeah, girls like this exist in real life." If you don’t spend time watching real people, you can’t do this, because you’ve never seen it. Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves. Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It’s produced by humans who can’t stand looking at other humans. And that’s why the industry is full of otaku!”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Despair

“Philosophy is the invention of the rich.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Despair

“I lied as a nightingale sings, ecstatically, self-obliviously; reveling in the new life-harmony which I was creating.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Despair

“I am an actor, living generally on air, but I have always elastic hopes for the future; they may be stretched indefinitely, such hopes, without bursting”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Despair

“An author’s fondest dream is to turn the reader into a spectator; is this ever attained?”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Despair

“Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.”
― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk: First President and Founder of Theturkish Republic