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Kafka on the Shore
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"Not sure if I’m going to finish this one as I am skipping pages for the 3rd time. Non-spoilery reasons: (1) unnecessary hetero sex scene, (2) violence against cats, (3) anti-feminist rhetoric.

Have I once again fallen into the trap of famous male author who hates women and loves violence?"
May 31, 2026 09:37PM

 
The Picture of Do...
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James Clavell
“Isn't it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome all the horror and waste and suffering here on earth? Like tonight, watching all those brave men meet their fate here, on this shore, on this gentle night, through a karma ordained a thousand lifetimes ago, or perhaps even one.

Isn’t it only through laughter we can stay human?”
James Clavell, Shōgun

J.K. Rowling
“You'll stay with me?'
Until the very end,' said James.”
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Dorothy Allison
“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.”
Dorothy Allison

Charles Dickens
“It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was. ”
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

James Clavell
“Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you’re here and nothing you can do will change that. Today you’re alive and here and honored, and blessed with good fortune. Look at this sunset, it’s beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity.

Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine, or that of the village.”
James Clavell, Shōgun

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