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“All the times humanity developed the power to destroy itself utterly, and it never had. Or, more likely, it had done it a hundred million times in a hundred million ways in alternate spacetimes, but of course Maya could not have been born into a world that did not exist.”
― We Who Will Destroy the Future
― We Who Will Destroy the Future
“I was an elder sister before I was a wife, and for longer, and that’s a shape I can’t easily shake.”
― The River Has Roots
― The River Has Roots
“Of the possible shades of indigo dyeing, a deep navy blue was employed most frequently. As a result, ko-ya, the name of the dyers who used it, became a kind of synonym for the whole hand-dyeing industry. The demand for navy blue kept ko-ya so busy that they hardly had time to dye their own clothing; this gave rise to the phrase “a ko-ya who wears white,” which referred in general to anyone too busy attending to the needs of others to attend to his own.”
― The Colors of Japan: Background, Characteristics and Creation
― The Colors of Japan: Background, Characteristics and Creation
“I haven’t been around very long, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned already, it’s that even the friends who can take care of themselves need help sometimes.”
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“At the root of my atheism -- and my writing style -- is a natural tendency to try to beautify ugly truths rather than swallow beautiful lies.”
― You Don't Have To Have A Dream: Advice for the Incrementally Ambitious
― You Don't Have To Have A Dream: Advice for the Incrementally Ambitious
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