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“Ah, Anjin-san, that’s because you’re thinking in your own language. To understand Japanese you have to think Japanese. Don’t forget our language is the language of the infinite. It’s all so simple, Anjin-san. Just change your concept of
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Being a Japanese language teacher this is my favorite quote from the book. It's actually on my syllabus and I talk about it with my students every year. I recommend the book to them and then tell them to let me know if they read it and to tell me what the next line is. I've never had a kid contact me though. Bummer. :(
“Then I remember it’s January, a month when only the potatoes are optimistic about warmer weather.”
― The Rural Life
― The Rural Life
“To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something, whether painting or poetry, that you cared about a great deal.”
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“It’s all shit,” he had muttered in English, and felt better.”
― Shōgun: The Epic Novel of Japan
― Shōgun: The Epic Novel of Japan
“Scholars of religion have a name for this simultaneous avowal of different and even contradictory ideas and the combination of rituals and practices taken from different sources. It’s called syncretism. Syncretism might, in fact, be the single great world religion.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“And beyond the literal landscape—the one that has been tilled and planted or logged or fenced or simply let alone—there is the ideal landscape that lives only in the mind. Every day you explore the difference between the two, knowing that you can see what no one else can.”
― The Rural Life
― The Rural Life
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