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“I have an unlimited [number] of vices—laziness, wastefulness, being too emotional. I mean to fix these things, but I have a feeling that my novels would then die, so I leave them be.”
― Natsuo Kirino

“Wherever fate lands you, you look for something interesting and enjoy it as best as you can. Maybe that's what makes life interesting.”
― Wang Anyi, Other Voices, Other Vistas: Short Stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America

“The long-forgotten silence sounded like music I’d never heard before.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“Fortune may shine brightly on a woman like that, but the shadow cast is long and dark.”
― Natsuo Kirino