Shoji Tabuchi Quotes & Sayings

The thought was, 'We're going to go to California, where the soil is black and ten feet deep, and there are no rocks, and there's gold in the hills.' The West becomes the surface onto which people project their fantasies, where once the future had been the place they projected their fantasies. So it's not just the war that ends the utopian communities, but what follows. — Christine Jennings

Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist. — Paul Valery

Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him. — Loretta Lynn

Be ever more obedient to God and He will save you. — Pachomius The Great

Let your words be your voice. And let your voice be heard within the hearts of others. — Anasia Nicole Hixon

My county? Another concept to which you attach from a distance a rather vague ideal. You want to know what "my country" really is? Nothing more or less than a gathering of shareholders, a form of property, bourgeois mentality, and vanity. Think about all the people in your country whom you wouldn't go near, and you'll see that the ties that are supposed to bind us together don't go very deep.... — Gabriel Chevallier